Area Church Notices Local congregations events and services
Northern area churches list worship times sermons programs choir rehearsals and youth activities across many parishes including Federated Church East Arlington First Congregational Old Bennington Redeemer Lutheran Second Congregational First United Methodist Church Missionary Alliance Church St Peters Episcopal Arlington St. Francis de Sales Our Lady of Lourdes West Arlington North Pownal Wilmington Rupert Dorset-East Rupert United Methodist Dorset-East Rupert Our Lady of Fatima Baptist St. Margaret Mary Quaker and other groups with meal programs nursery school and midweek activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Congregational Church
Old Bennington
Arvel M. Steece
Perri Morris
First United Methodist Church
Richard D. Campbell
Missionary Alliance Church
Tsaiah
First Baptist Church
John the Baptist
Sacred Heart Church
North Bennington Baptist Church
Vermont towns gain free excess Civil Defense equipment
Vermont communities receive excess property valued at 150000 from the Civil Defense program. Trucks vans and fire apparatus go to Vernon Rutland Barton Charleston Stamford Guilford St Albans Fletcher Wells Lincoln Williston Berlin Sherburne and Arlington Sheffield Stamford Ludlow Rockingham and Bennington. The gear supports fire rescue and town forces with minimal cost beyond travel and manpower.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montpelier
Richard C. Holmes
Vermont Civil Defense
Vermont
Vernon
Rutland
Barton
Charleston
Stamford
Guilford
St. Albans
Fletcher
Wells
Lincoln
Williston
Berlin
Sherburne
Arlington
Sheffield
Ludlow
Rockingham
Bennington
U.S
Bennington area council plans Lent events and talks
At a Tuesday executive meeting at First United Methodist Church the Bennington Area Ecumenical Council of Churches reviewed past activities including Januarys Week of Prayer and Unity. Plans for Lent include Living Lenten Portraits monologues and ecumenical discussions, noon Living Room Dialogues, Lent breakfasts, and Easter sunrise events with BREF cooperation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harriet Davis
Bennington Area
Church Council
Substance Abuse Council
Federal
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
State Board of Education
Mauhs Board
Campbell
Council of Churches
BREF
Council
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Church Women United plan Day of Prayer events
The Church Women United executive council met at the Methodist Church to outline events including the World Day of Prayer March 7 at North Bennington Baptist Church. Theme for 1975 is Become Perfectly One with services across six continents using Egypt material. A separate Shaftsbury meeting of United Methodist Women is planned February 11 with officers to be installed and a speaker from Vermont Teacher of the Year Doris Kinsley Rickert.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jane Wickenden
Church Women United
The
Methodist Church
Harry Hayden
A. R. Galusha
North Bennington Baptist Church
Women’s Ecumenical Prayer Fellowship of
Egypt
Robert
Shaftsbury
United Methodist Women
First United Methodist Church
Alvan Lawrence
Angus MacDonald
Harold McDonald
Buck
Doris Kinsley Rickert
South Royalton
Vermont
Church World Service
Max Webster
Church Women United Organization
Area Council
Webster
Wartorn
Lawrence
Hayden
Bennington Area
Marino Named Troy Conference Communications Coordinator
The Rev Ralph A Marino pastor of Waterford United Methodist Church and district communications coordinator for the Bennington Troy District has been named chairman of a special task force on interpretation for the Troy Conference. The group will report to the conference's 350 churches on how benevolence monies are used and includes multiple regional clergy and lay representatives from New York and Vermont.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saratoga Springs
N.Y
Ralph A. Marino
Waterford
United Methodist Church
Bennington- Troy
Troy
Royal Fishbeck
Council On Ministries
Marino
Fishbeck
Robert Hammond
Rowland S. Conklin
Albany
Hugh Templeton
Schuylerville
Clark
Vineyard Books founder Avery Brooke talks publishing faith books
Avery Brooke of Vineyard Books, Inc. spoke at St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Darien about publishing religious works while managing family life. She described starting the press with Elise Maclay, the first book Doorway to Meditation selling over 4000 copies, and plans to publish four titles annually including Stay With Me Lord and Roots of Spring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Isabel Gwinn Landgrove
Avery Brooke
Vineyard Books, Inc
Avery
Joel
St. Luke’s Episcopal Church
Darien
Conn
Landgrove
St. Luke’s School
Union Theological Seminary
Columbia
Elise Maclay
New York City
Robert Pinart
Frechman
St. Luke's
Kennedy Airport
Washington
Herbert B. West
Lord
Seabury Press
Readers Digest Press
Missionary Alliance Church marks 25th anniversary year
The Missionary Alliance Church held its annual meeting on Monday night January 27 with Pastor John R. Carlson as moderator. Officers and departments reported progress, a parsonage purchase, all debts paid, and a larger budget for 1975 approved. Over 50 decisions for Christ were recorded. extensive nominations were elected across officers and committees. The church will observe its 25th anniversary this year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missionary Alliance Church
John R. Carlson
Jesus Christ
Barbara Wagner
Miriam Chase
Ted Rice
Dennis Hill
Phyllis Bronson
Dorothy Hill
Ed Bronson
Robert Wagner
Clara Sweet
Elizabeth Andrew
Winifred Ayers
Emily Chase
Tom Sinclair
Aline LaFlamme
Ruth Galusha
Wilma Sinclair
Debbie Harrington
Children’s Church
Velma Thayer
Cindy Chase
Nancy Lenehan
Arthur Person
Mildred Ross
Kathy Rice
Darlene Percey
Daisy Johnson
Iona Naaktgeboren
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Area Church Notices
Federated Church
East Arlington
Mary Burton-Beinecke
Arlington Chorale
Congregational Church
North Bennington
A.J. MacDonald
Buettell
Hazel MacDonald
Church Street
Historical Society
Manchester
Wayne A. Dalton
Hevey
Board of Trustees
Pilgrim Singers
Liberty Belles Rehersal
Redeemer Lutheran Church
Second Congregational Church
Baptist Church
Pownal
Kenneth Schwebel
St. Peter’s Episcopal Church
Kenneth W. Costin
Zion Episcopal Church
Guild of St. Margaret
All Faith’s Chapel
Vermont Veterans Home
St. James Episcopal Church
Floyd la Bombard
Women’s Society
Board of Missions and Stewardship
Church of Christ
Church of God
First Church of Christ, Scientist
Llam
John
David Hubbard
Old Stone Church
Independent Baptist
Edwin M. Ellis
Kingdom Hall
Jehovah's Witnesses
Congregation
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
St. Francis de Sales Catholic
St. John the Baptist Catholic Church
Church of Christ West
North Pownal
Wilmington
John P. R. Morgan
Rupert
Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church
East Dorset
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Mormons
McCullough Library
Sacrament
West Arlington
David Bort
Seventh-day Adventist Church
George C. Mills
United Church
Dorset-East Rupert
Church
Hal C. Miller III
Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church
John C. Morris
Leo Hourihan
Society of Friends
Quakers
Bennington Free Library
St. Margaret Mary Catholic Church
Sandgate
Edward Clark
Community Church
Pownat
Frederick W. Vogell
D.C
Los Angeles
UPI
Walt Rostow
Lyndon Johnson
Indochina
Rostow
Vietnam
Norman Dowds
Dowds
Judas
Pilate
Callender
Poultney Vt
Oren Lane
Warrensburg
Irving French
Rutland, Vt
Pam Pearson
Burlington, Vt
Grace Hudowalski
Eleanor Clarke
Delmar
Martin Cornman
East Greenbush
Chester Vanderbilt
Rensselaer
Council On Administration and Finance
Mar
Vineyard Books
Nearwater Lane
Noroton
IBM
Northside Drive
PETCO
MART
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