Bennington Area Churches and Services Listings
A dense schedule of worship services, Sunday schools, and midweek activities across multiple Vermont towns. Denominations include United Methodist, Congregational, Apostolic Pentecostal, Quaker, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Catholic, Baptist, Episcopal, and Lutheran. Notable items mention sermons by Rev. David Hubbard, Rev. Alfred Cole, and Rev. Walter Davenport among others, with varied times and locations from Bennington to Shaftsbury and Manchester Center.
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United Methodist Church
Pownal
David Hubbard
Apostolic Pentecostal Church
North Pownal
Walter P. Davenport
Sarkis Trailer Park
Church OF Jesus Christ OF Latter Day Saints
Masonic Temple
Baptist Church
North Bennington
Alfred Scott
Life at MAUHS topic at church council meeting
The Bennington Area Ecumenical Council explored Life at Mt Anthony Union High School during a February panel at Second Congregational Church. Faculty members Charles Keir Frances Woodcock and James Colvin spoke on administration teaching and science challenges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mt. Anthony Union High School
Bennington Area
Edward B. Geyer Jr
St. Peter’s Episcopal Church
Communion opens midweek Lenten series
The First United Church hosts a midweek Lenten service led by Rev. Richard D. Campbell with an Ash Wednesday Communion drawn from Ventures in Worship. Theme is Miracles in Life and emphasizes loving God and neighbors. Next Wednesday Rev. John H. Parke leads a three day healing mission at St. Peter's Episcopal, with Praying for Our Children and a talk on The Power of Positive and Negative Thinking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard D. Campbell
Parlor
Circle III
Circle I
Church Women United
Paul Crane
George St
North Bennington
John H. Parke
First Baptist Church
Woman’s Society
Bennington Area
Mr. Campbell
St. Peter’s Episcopal Church
Healing Mission At St. Peter's Three Days
A three day Mission of Christian Healing sponsored by the Bennington Area Ecumenical Council of Churches is set for Tuesday through Thursday at St. Peter's. Rev. John H. Parke of Christ Episcopal Church Rochdale Mass. leads sessions on Removing the Blocks Receiving the Power and Releasing the Power with a 10 am Thursday talk on The Power of a Prayer Group.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington Area
Parke
Amherst, Mass
Old church shows signs of a revitalizing force
In Pownal Center the historic Community Church shows renewed vigor with a 20 plus congregation. A new altar carpet, spring bouquets, and a two-man pulpit highlight fresh life as a seminary student leads a reflective song, a youth choir rehearses weekly, and adults discuss weekly fellowship projects. The sermon cites Peter and the rock, urging firm foundations for life and church.
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Pownal Center
Reverend Pierce to Speak at Old Bennington Service
The Rev Dr Richard D Pierce academic vice president and dean of Emerson College Boston will be the pulpit guest at the 11 am Sunday service of First Congregational Church Old Bennington He will discuss Religion in an Age of Confusion Pierce is a New Hampshire native with degrees from UNH Andover Newton Boston University Emerson and Harvard He studied at the Sorbonne in Paris and was ordained in 1939 a Unitarian minister He serves on religious and charitable boards is chaplain general of the Society of Cincinnati and life governor of Manchester College in Oxford England He has traveled extensively
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First Congregational Church
Old Bennington
Church Barn
Richard D. Pierce
Emerson College
Boston
Randa Hilliard
Vern T. Pierson
James MacDermid
Society of Cincinnati
Manchester College
Oxford
England
Baptist women tour UCS facilities eye opening tour
Mrs Frances Simmons UCS volunteer coordinator and L John Isselhardt UCS clinical psychologist hosted the North Bennington Baptist Church Women’s Fellowship at UCS offices. The group toured a kids room with varied toys used to ease anxieties and learned about the day treatment center and two way widows. Volunteers’ roles in teaching transport and clerical work were highlighted. Coffee and cookies followed. The weekly men’s Lenten breakfast moves between churches Wednesday morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frances Simmons
United Counseling Service
L. John Isselhardt
UCS
Women’s Fellowship
North Bennington Baptist Church
Simmons
Also Mentioned on This Page
Bennington
Congregational Church
Wilmington
Alfred S. Cole
Rupert
Church OF God
Leslie Wright
First Church OF Christ Scientist
Philippians
Christ Jesus
Allfaiths Chapel
Vermont Veterans Home
M. Everett Corbett
Church OF Christ West
Shaftsbury
Council of Ministries of the First United Methodist Church
Fabio Paccioni
Angus MacDonald
Seventh-Day Adventist Church
George C. Mills
East Dorset
Society OF Friends
Quakers
Bennington Free Library
United Church
Dorset-East Rupert
Church
Hal C. Miller III
Douglas Weiss
Zion Episcopal Church
Manchester Center
Robert L. Clayton
Sanctuary
J. Richard Sherlock
Healing Mission
Kenneth Rebel
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
Cornaredo
Italy
UPI
Oscar Salvioli
Norma Zorzano
Open Bible Church
Woodford Hollow
Paul M. Carr
Frederick Buechner
First United Methodist Church
AJ. MacDonald
van Denman Thompson
Manchester
Pilgrim Fellowship
Isaiah
Jerome J. Hevey Jr
James
Edward B.geyer Jr
OLD Stone Church
Independent Baptist
Edwin M. Ellis
ST. Mary’s IN the Mountains
John C. Morris
Jerusalem
King George Ave
Moshe Batzrai
Redeemer Lutheran Church
St. Joseph College
Allen Barnes
Missionary Alliance Church
Franklyn J. Klein Jr
World Missions Day Group
WMPF
Kingdom Hall
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Congregation
Our Lady OF Lourdes Catholic Church
ST. Francis DE Sales Catholic
ST. John the Baptist Catholic Church
Second Congregational Church
Green Mountain Club
Methodist Church
West Arlington
John Geer
North Pownat
Jim Metcalf
ST. James Episcopal Church
Arlington
Lawrence A. Sherwin
ST. Margaret Mary Catholic Church
Gerald T. Buckley
Church OF Christ
Our Lady OF Fatima Catholic Church
Federated Church East
Harbour Road
Mauhs
Church Council
China
Frederick Smith
United States
William Cota
Caryl Adams
Randall Hilliard
William Smith
The
National Council of Churches
Charlotte
N.C
Robert M. Agard
Dana Loomis
Council
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Robert Stout
North Bennington Congregational Church
Sacred Heart
School Street
Vermont National
St. Peter’s
Kent School
Connecticut
Princeton
General Theological Seminary
Maine
Massachusetts
California
Arizona
By Charlotte A. Heuss
Dr. Pierce
Old First
Baptist
Walker
Maixer
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