Bennington Area Church Notices Minor Schedule of Services
Bennington area churches share worship and Bible study times across multiple parishes. Services, parish activities, choir rehearsals, Sunday schools, and youth programs are listed for First Congregational Manchester Arlington St. James Arlington and others with Holy Communion and sermon details noted for several ministers and chaplains.
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St. James Episcopal Church
Arlington
Lawrence A. Sherwin
Arthur F. Moody
Federated Church East
Old Bennington
Church Barn
Arvel M. Steece
Manchester churches offer Lenten School of Religion
Manchester Ecumenical Council sponsors a three annual Lenten School of Religion at St Pauls parish house. Five courses run March 5 to April 1 with 2 dollar registration. Courses cover Jesus meanings, transactional analysis, marriage today, Hebrew tradition, and the Christian year led by local pastors educators and specialists.
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Manchester
Martin F. Clancy
St. Paul’s Rectory
Solo Bach cantata to be sung Sunday in Manchester church
Wayne Dalton will sing Bach cantata Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne Tragen at the 10 a.m. service at First Congregational Church with the Chancel Choir. Written in 1726, the work is one of Bach’s admired solo cantatas and showcases his skill with limited vocal forces.
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First Congregational Church
Manchester
Wayne Dalton
Heinrich Schuetz
United Women’s Fellowship
Emmy McCully
Floyd I. la Bombard
Marie Pooler
Thomas Tallis
Lewie Dodge
Groom
Clauvet
Boy Scouts
Bloodmobile
Colgate Hall
Johann Sebastian Bach
Dalton
Bach
Germany
Council sponsors open Communion at St Peters
The Bennington Area Ecumenical Council of Churches hosts an Ash Wednesday service at St. Peters at 6 p.m. followed by a covered dish supper. Attendees are urged to bring a family salad or casserole. Rev. Kenneth W. Costin leads a Lent discussion after the meal as part of a weekly Lenten series.
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Kenneth W. Costin
Bennington Area
Holy Communion
Congregational Church
North Bennington
Missions Committee
Arthur Jones
Chapel Nursery School
St. Peter’s Episcopal Church
World Day of Prayer planned by Northshire women at Dorset
Northshire women will observe World Day of Prayer at United Church of Dorset and East Rupert, Friday March 1 at 2:30 p.m. The theme Make Us Builders of Peace reflects the Japan prepared materials. A free will offering funds rehabilitation and education in war torn regions, with a slogan Share the Ride due to gasoline shortages.
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United Church
Dorset-East Rupert
Church
Hal C. Miller III
Dorset
Northshire
United Church of
Dorset and
East Rupert
Japan
United States
Evangelicals Move Into Social and Political Arenas
Evangelicals, long seen as theological conservatives, begin discussing social and political action. Calvin College in Grand Rapids hosts a spring conference to focus on evangelical social concerns. A prior declaration urged addressing materialism and global inequities while resisting civil religion. The 1973 event seeks to translate talks into political power, with liberal observers watching closely. Bennington area Church Women United to hold World Day of Prayer service at Bennington Methodist Church, theme Make Us Builders of Peace, featuring Japanese materials for global participation.
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Washington
UPI
Calvin College
Grand Rapids
Mich
Nixon
Cal F.H. Henry
Christianity Today
Bennington Area
Chrch Women United
Bennington Methodist Church
Arthur Rogerson
Japan
United States
Church Women United
Knights of Malta disavows U S unit using name
Rome headquarters of the Knights of Malta challenges a New York based group using its name as illegal and deceptive. Ecumenical Knights of Malta leaders defend their four year old off shoot, noting members include Nobel laureates, generals, ambassadors and clergy. The dispute highlights enduring appeal of knighthood amid secularism and misrepresentation concerns. Chaplain Lorraine Potter, Montgomery UP I item follows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Hoffman
N.Y. Times
Rome
Knights of Malta
Quintin Jermy Gwyn
United States
Ecumenical Knights of Malta
First Presbyterian Church
12Th Street
Fifth Avenue
Ecumenical Knights
Palazzo Malta
Knights
Austria
Malta
Mediterranean
Holy Land
Angelo de Morana
New York
Prince Robert Michael Nicholas George Bassareba von Bran
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Bennington Area Church Notices
Second Congregational Church
Thomas D. Steffen
Board of Women’s Fellowship
All Faiths Chapel
Vermont Veterans Home
Joseph Quinn
M. Everett Corbett
First Church of Christ, Scientist
Zion Episcopal Church
Manchester Center
Robert L. Clayton
Guild of St. Margaret
United Methodist Church
West Arlington
David Bort
Baptist Church
Wilmington
Open Bible Church
Woodford Hollow
Paul M. Carr
Church of Christ West
Howard B. Ford Jr
Community Church
Woodford
Louis A. Cook
Church of God
Leslie Wright
Pownal
David Hubbard
North Pown At
Jim Metcalf
Youth Fellowship
Church of Christ
Kingdom Hall
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Congregation
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
Seventh-day Adventist Church
George C. Mills
Society of Friends
Quakers
Bennington Free Library
John P. R. Morgan
Old Stone Church
Independent Baptist
Edwin M. Ellis
Missionary Alliance Church
Earle Hewitt
Petersburg
N.Y
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Mormons
McCullough Library
Sacrament
St. Margaret Mary Catholic Church
Gerald T. Buckley
Leo Hourihan
First Baptist Church
Redeemer Lutheran Church
Allen Barnes
First United Methodist Church
Shaftsbury
AJ. MacDonald
Bradbury
Roger B. Buettell
Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church
North Pownal
East Dorset
Kenneth Schwebel
Pownat
Douglas Weiss
Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church
St. Francis de Sales Catholic
St. John the Baptist Catholic Church
Methodist Church
Sandgate
John Geer
St. Mary’s
Isprt Wilmin
John C. Morris
Kwasi Ahankwa-Nainu
Ghana
Richard D. Campbell
Jesus
Memorial Church
Troy
UMYF
Parlor
Circle I
Kitchen
Sanctuary
New Life Mission Task Force
Cherub
Webelos
Renan and
Schweitzer
Cole Hall
East Arlington
Justin J. Muller
Israel Congregation
Richard Olmstead
The
Canon Robert Clayton
Manchester Church
Council
St. Peters
By David E. Anderson
CWU
U.S
Soverign Military Hospitaler Order of St. John of Jerusalem
Rhodes
Italy
Spain
Portugal
Covan
St. Patrick’s
Prince Robert
Vatican
Paul VI
Montgomery, Ala
Lorraine Potter
Air Force
Belemare & Son
Northside Drive
Bennington
America
Galilee
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