Bennington Area Church Activities and Services
First Congregational Church lists 9:45 a.m. church school and 11 a.m. worship with Youth Sunday. Dialogue sermon Created to be Human in a Broken World by six contributors. Weekly schedule includes board meetings choir rehearsals Lenten studies and Holy Communion services. The Bennington area churches share Lent and Youth Week events with multiple sermons choirs and fellowship gatherings.
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Pilgrim Fellowship
Peter Riker
Melanie Otis
Aaron Hill
William Day
Francis Coburn
Don Otis
Senior High Pilgrim Fellowship
Board of Trustees
Jerome J. Hevey
Bennington Unitarian Fellowship Speaker at Library
10 30 a m Miss Margaret M Farmer formerly an attorney with the National Labor Relations Board in Washington D C will speak on An Intricate Pattern of Social Adjustment at the Bennington Free Library Visitors are welcome at the service and at the coffee hour which follows Nursery facilities are provided
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Margaret M. Farmer
National Labor Relations Board
Washington, D.C
Bennington Free Library
First Baptist Church To Host United Ash Wednesday Service
The Ash Wednesday United Lenten Service takes place Feb 8 at 7 30 p m at First Baptist with Rev Charles Chandler of Church of Christ as guest preacher sermon topic Looking Back to the Christ of the Cross Host pastor Rev H Glenn Payne leads the service The combined choir under Paul Williams directs music including Surely He Hath Borne Our Griefs and Think of These Things Williams also sings a baritone solo Organist Mrs Paul Williams plays preludes and postlude The event kicks off a Union Lenten series co sponsored by Bennington Council of Churches and Bennington Ecumenical Association Also listed are future services and church activities for Feb 12 Feb 14 and midweek church events including nursery provided classes and a narcotics film The notice invites all to attend regardless of church affiliation
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First Baptist
Charles Chandler
Church of Christ
H. Glenn Payne
Paul Williams
Lotti
Bennington Ecumenical Association
Old First Congregational Church
Old Bennington
Richard Lenihan
Missionary Alliance Church
Lenten Services Planned at North Petersburg Chapel
North Petersburg Chapel in New York schedules seven Thursday night Lenten services at 7 30 starting next week with Rev Reginald B Hewitt of Watervilte as first speaker The series features ministers from Troy Hudson Mohawk Berlin Grafton and North Troy and includes a Good Friday three hour devotional at the Church of Our Savior in Lebanon Springs The final week adds a youth program and midweek meetings with worship prayers and Sabbath School sessions listed by day and time.
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North Petersburg
N.Y
Reginald B. Hewitt
Watervliet
Champlain Conference of
Wesleyan Methodist Churches
Frederick W. Vogell
Troy Area Council of Churches
Charles J. McCallum
Hudson - Mohawk Evangelical Ministers’ Fellowship
Joseph Reicher
New Hampshire Gospel Mission For the Blind
Jim Borden
Averill Park
J. Bernard Fell
Berlin
Grafton
C. Emory Weeks
Tennessee Teple School
Chattanooga
Sixth Avenue Baptist Church
North Troy
Hans Hartjens
Church of Our Savior
Lebanon Springs
Ministers of Lebanon
Taconic Valley
Religion in America: Heaven and Hell Beliefs Diverge
A Gallup survey for Catholic Digest finds 68 percent of Americans believe in Heaven but only 54 percent accept Hell as real. The gap highlights discomfort with eternal punishment among orthodox Christians while tension rises with Christ’s teaching that cannot be removed from the Gospels.
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United Press International
Heaven
Hell
George Gallup
Catholic Digest
Jesus Christ
Christ
Jerusalem film shown at West Hoosick Baptist Church
West Hoosick Baptist Church will screen the 65 minute Eastman color film Jerusalem Sunday at 7 30 p m. Narrated by Dr Billy Graham the program includes a free will offering and a post show collation. The article discusses theological views on free will and salvation.
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West Hoosick
N.Y
Jerusalem
West Hoosick Baptist Church
Billy Graham
Two Local Women Return From Church Sponsored Trip
New York a group of nineteen leaders from the United Church of Christ traveled from ten states including Mrs Theodore H Thomas of Bennington and Mrs Clarence Mallory of North Bennington. They arrived after an eight day study tour in Puerto Rico focusing on social action programs across theological educational and medical institutions and churches.
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New York
United Church of Christ
Theodore H. Thomas
Bennington
Clarence Mallory
North Bennington
Puerto Rico
Lenten lecture series at Old First Church Old Bennington
Dr Arvel M Steece will lead a Lenten lecture series at Old First Church Barn Thursdays at 730 p m Feb 9 The Confessions of Augustine Feb 16 The Imitation of Christ Feb 23 Theologica Germanica Mar 2 The Practice of the Presence of God Mar 9 Introduction to the Devout Life Mar 16 A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life Everyone is welcome The tour was sponsored by the Stewardship Council United Church of Christ leader Rev William K Penn of St James UCC Havertown Pa United Church of Christ marks its 10th anniversary Puerto Rico work began with Congregational missionaries after the Spanish American War In 1931 the denomination merged with Evangelical United Brethren to form the United Evangelical Church of Puerto Rico now with 56 churches and 6 000 members On day one leaders visited United Seminary at the University of Puerto Rico in Rio Piedras then Yaqui Rural Center in Luquillo Mountains founded 1948 serving nearly 300 families with a camp and conference center for thousands of youths.
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Arvel M. Steece
First Congregational Church
Old Bennington
Old First Church
Augustine
Stewardship Council of the
United Church
William K. Penn
St. James
United Evangelical Church of
Puerto Rico
United Seminary
University of Puerto
World Day of Prayer Planned by Church Women
Representatives from seven area churches met at the Methodist Church to finalize plans for the annual World Day of Prayer. The service, prepared by Queen Salute of Tonga, will be held Friday at 2 p.m. at St. Peter's Episcopal with a UNICEF carton total of 518.10 and a 1966 ICCU Japan goal of 125 807000 noted.
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Church Women United
Methodist Church
St. Peter’s Episcopal Church
William Castle
Tonga Islands
Tonga
United Nations Committee
Unicef
Bernard Whitman
Marion Hardy
International Christian University
Japan
Miss Hardy
CWF
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