Bennington Area Church Events at Local Congregations
FIRST METHODIST CHURCH Shaftsbury hosts 10 30 worship with sermon Illimitable Possibilities by Rev A J Mac Donald and children story How Far by Eugene Kosche senior choir sings One Fair Morn Bizet arranged by Rittenhouse new members received during service nursery provided 11 35 Sunday School and adult classes 6 30 senior MYF program and Not Bigger Better film 10 am worship Come to Where the Flavor Is by Rev Thomas D Steffen nursery provided no Church School this week ST JAMES EPISCOPAL CHURCH Arlington 8 am Liturgy 10 am Liturgy Sunday School Monday Feast of Holy Name Communion service 8 am in chapel Saturday Epiphany Holy Communion UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST Bennington Unitarian Fellowship Visiting Sunday no meeting this week
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Methodist Church
Shaftsbury
A.J. MacDonald
Eugene Kosche
Bizet
Rittenhouse
Thomas D. Steffen
ST. James Episcopal Church
Arlington
First Church OF God
W. Earle Forman
Melvin R. McGaughey
Holst
WSCS
Parlor
First Baptist Church
Bethlehem
H. Glenn Payne
First Congregational Church
Old Bennington
Arvel M. Steece
John Mason
F.F. Harker
Franz Tunder
Ladies Aid Society
Church Barn
Joan
Marquette
Vatican II
Beverly Heike
Sisters of the Divine Savior
School of Dentistry
Portage
Wis
Beverly
Mt. Sinai Hospital
New York
Rome
Grace Cavanaugh
St Peters to Bless Homes during Epiphany season
The Rev Frederick B Wolf and the Rev Theodore Shatagin of St Peters Episcopal Church will conduct home blessing services for parish families as part of Epiphany. Call by Jan 6 to request the blessing, with services Jan 8 to Jan 12. Vestry hearings on church business follow the Jan 7 service, leading up to the Jan 21 annual meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick B. Wolf
St. Peter’s Episcopal Church
Theodore Shatagin
New Mormon Missionary Assigned Here
Elder Clyde L. Garner arrives in Bennington to replace Elder Dan Mc who moved to Dartmouth Nova Scotia. Garner comes from Emmett Idaho as the eldest of nine children active in the church. He has spent 20 months in New England teaching the faith, with service in New Brunswick Maine Massachusetts Rhode Island and none elsewhere. A companion Elder Mike Shane invites all to Sunday services at 10 a.m. in the Catholic Daughters rooms at the old library corner Main and Silver.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clyde L. Garner
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Mormon
Bennington
Dan Mc
Dartmouth
Nova Scotia
Garner
Emmett
Idaho
New England
New Brunswick
Maine
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Mike Shane
Catholic Daughters
Main and
Silver Street
Catholic Nuns Embrace Life Outside Convents
Milwaukee report shows Vatican II era shifting nuns toward public roles. Sisters study dentistry psychology direct TV shows in New Bedford and advise Job Corps in St. Louis while embracing street length habits and home visits. Leaders discuss mobility openness and redefining the nun’s mission across orders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
UPI
New Bedford
Mass
St. Louis
Mardelle Bellinghausen
Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration
Sister Mardelle
Marquette University
Mardelle
la Crosse
Wis
Kathleen Vonderhaar
Sisters of
Loretto
Marquette
Kathleen
Webster Groves
Job Corps Center
Joan Louise Rowney
Huntington
Ind
Feast or Famine Conference Topic at Goddard College
The 29th annual winter conference of the Ygpmont Farm and Labor Council will explore the hunger gap and global famine risks with speakers led by Horace Davyig discussing Can the World Be Fed. Agricultural leaders from UVM and Bennington College will join as panelists. Reservations are through Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plainfield
Ygpmont Farm and Labor Council
Goddard College
Horace Davyig
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Davis
Martin Manor
al Heald
Vermont
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service
Winston Way
University of Vermont Agricultural Agronomist
Faith Prior
UVM
Fred Webster
Pat Mcfadden
Beverly B. Cassara
Plaintfield
Plane lands on street during Christmas visit in Reno
Federal Aviation Agency inspector Philip Abernathy confronted David Hines of Grass Valley California when he landed a single engine plane on a street near his brother's house in Reno for a Christmas visit. Hines disassembled the craft and hauled it by truck to a nearby airport to reassemble and fly home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reno
Nev
UPI
Federal Aviation Agency
David Hines
Grass Valley
Calif
Philip Abernathy
Hines
Reflections on Time In Religion For New Year
Louis Cassels of United Press International discusses time as both a bane and a blessing, quoting Milton and Shakespeare, noting time's varied pace for different people, and arguing that finite days give life urgency and meaning while eternal life offers a transitory, beyond-time existence for believers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Milton
Vietnam
George
William Shakespeare
George Burns
Hippocrates
Cardinal Newman
Also Mentioned on This Page
Second Congregational Church
Unitarian-Universalist
Bennington Unitarian Fellowship
St. Peter’s
Zion Episcopal Church
Manchester Center
Robert L. Clayton
Manchester
Jerome J. Hevey
God Be Praised
Vultius
OLD Stone Church
Independent Baptist
North Bennington
Elwin M. Ellis
Faith Bible Baptist Church
Woodford Hollow
Kenneth Schwebel
Congregational Church
North Pownal
William Hunsicker
Seventh-Day Adventist Church
Community Church
Pownal Center
Church OF Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints
Silver Streets
Missionary Alliance Church
Richard Lenehan
Frank Massa
Conway
N.H
Massa
Lenehan
First Church OF Christ Scientist
Christ Jesus
Isaiah
Hotel Putnam
Methodist Church
West Arlington
Max H. Webster
Baptist Church
Pownal
Federated Church East
Alfred Scott
Baptist Youth Fellowship
St. Michael’s Hospital
Grace
ANK OF
ORTH
Kuala Lumpur
Kedah
Rockwood’s
Box K
Bennington Banner
Oneida
Louis Cassels
United Press International
Harte Theatre
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Mess
MGM
Hanson
Walbridge
National
Dean UY Mantm
COSCO
Haynes & Kane Inc
Main ST
Atkins
Atkins & Gould
Jewelers
Whit
Insulaire
White Sale
Monument Plaza
Walker
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