Area Church Notices from Bennington Region
Area churches list worship times, masses, confessions, and churchschool offerings across Bennington area towns including North Bennington, Arlington, Dorset East Rupert, Sunderland, and Pownal Center with details on ministers, meeting times, and parish activities for Sundays and weekdays. The notices reference multiple denominations such as Catholic, Episcopal, Baptist, Methodist, Lutheran, Jehovahs Witnesses, Unitarian Universalist, and Seventh-day Adventist.
Gunn named executive director of Americans United for Church and State
The National Advisory Council of Americans United for Separation of Church and State named Andrew Leigh Gunn as executive director effective April 1, succeeding Dr. Glenn L. Archer who led since 1948. Gunn, ordained Methodist minister in 1955, has long championed religious liberty and holds degrees from Oberlin College and Yale, with studies at American University and Lancaster Theological Seminary. He previously led Maryland clergy groups and served in churches in Indian Head and Gaithersburg, continuing a career focused on church-state separation and education advocacy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silver Spring
Maryland
National Advisory Council of
Americans United For Separation of Church and State
National Conference On Church and State
Andrew Leigh Gunn
Religious Liberty Organization
Gunn
Glenn L. Archer
Americans United
Religious Liberty
United Methodist
G. Bromley Oxnam
Oberlin College
Yale University
American University
Lancaster Theological Seminary
Indian Head
Grace United Methodist Church
Gaithersburg
Correctional Institutions of
Maryland Committee For Public Education
American Field Service
Foreign Student Exchange
Separation of Church and State
American United
Lenten services set in Bennington area starting March 3
The Bennington area ecumenical Lenten schedule begins March 3 with 7:30 p.m. services. The theme Sharing a Singing Faith emphasizes hymnody across denominations. An offering supports the Bennington Area Ecumenical Council of Churches. A three hour Good Friday service The Seven Last Words will be at St. Peter's Church April 16 coordinated by Rev. Kenneth W. Costin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jerome J. Hevey Jr
Pilgrim Singers
Faith
Liberty Belles
Redeemer Lutheran Church
Allen Barnes
Second Congregational Church
Hillside Street
Bennington
Bennington-Troy
First United Methodist Church
Geneva Long
Latham
N.Y
Division of Education
Board of Discipleship
The
United Methodist Church
Roy Ryan
Troy Conference
Mack B. Stokes
Aileen Sanborn
Gerald F. Crowell
Church
Bennington Area
St. Peter’s Church
Kenneth W. Costin
Shaftsbury
Sacred Heart Church
First Baptist Church
North Bennington Congregational Church
Missionary Alliance Church
Ecumenical Council of Churches
St. Peter’s
Manchester Ecumenical Council
School of Religion
Holy Hunger Lenten theme services in Hoosick Falls
Hoosick Falls hosts Lenten Services under the Holy Hunger theme via the Hoosick Area Church Association. Ash Wednesday March 3 at 7:30 p.m. features Rev Myron Hertel speaking on Hunger for Freedom. Subsequent speakers cover hunger for success inner peace grace personhood spirit and wholeness with light refreshments after each session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Hoosick
Myron Hertel
Buskirk
N. Gordon Luther
Joel Miller
Harry Burdess
Clifford Gilson
Philip Garippa
Robert Springer
World Day of Prayer observed in three towns March 5
Church Women United in the Bennington area will hold World Day of Prayer from 2 to 3 p.m. Friday March 5 at North Bennington Congregational Church the 19th annual ecumenical observance unites Protestant Catholic and Orthodox women across 169 countries with a theme Education for All of Life Gifts support Water access and protein projects in Niger Malagasy Republic and Bolivia and aid for political prisoners and refugees across Latin America also includes local programs in Hoosick Falls and Manchester with related services and events through March 5.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington
North Bennington Congregational Church
Latin America
Mary Burton- Beinecke
Clyde Dunlap
Sunderland
Mesdames Alvan Lawrence
Arthur Moody
Gerald Raftery
William Houghton
Stanley Baczek
Ranny Galusha
Harold Riemann
Harry Hayden
John Dermody
John Searey
Thomas Harrison
Lyman van Nostrand
Church World Service
Unicef
Niger
Malagasy Republic
Bolivia
First United Church Presbyterian
Main Street
Hoosick Area
Women United
Mable W. Hewitt
Hoosick Falls
Manchester
First Congregational Church
Church and Community Events in Shaftsbury and Bennington
A Town Meeting Day Food and Fudge Sale is set for Tuesday March 2 from 10 a.m. in Cole Hall Shaftsbury with lunches including sandwiches and vegetable soup. Louise McDonald chairs the First United Methodist Church Finance Committee event. A sunrise Easter service is planned April 18 at 6 a.m. on the Putnam Memorial Hospital grounds in Bennington. Professor Ben Kimpel will present slide lectures on Significant Italian churches at 7 p.m. on March 7 and the two following Sundays at the North Bennington Baptist Church, free to attendees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shaftsbury
William Lester
Eugene Kosche
Cole Hall
Committee On Finance
Arvel M. Steece
Jesu
Word of God Incarnate
Gounod
Monica Murray
Lamb of God
Bizet
Pownal Center
Mary Burton-Beinecke
Louise McDonald
First United Methodist Church
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Bennington
Ben Kimpel
Drew University Graduate School
North Bennington Baptist Church
Also Mentioned on This Page
Area Church Notices
Society of Friends
Quakers
Bennington Free Library
Baptist Church
Wilmington
St. Margaret Mary Catholic Church
Arlington
Sandgate
Edward A. Clark
Union Church
Edward Clark
North Bennington
Church of Christ
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
Kingdom Hall
Jehovah's Witnesses
Congregation
Pownal
Kenneth Schwebel
United Church
Dorset-East Rupert
Hal C. Miller III
Howard Fish
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Mormons
McCullough Library
Sacrament
Congregational Church
Rupert
Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church
North Pownal
David Hubbard
Old Stone Church
Independent Baptist
Edwin M. Ellis
St. Francis de Sales Catholic
St. Peter's Episcopal Church
Holy Communion
Richard D. Campbell
U.M.Y
Wesley Fellowship
Elaine Miller
Family Bible School
John R. Carlson
Christ
Howard Family Gospel Singers
Barnard
Pioneer Girls
Ruth Galusha
Nancy Gilmore
Miriam Chase
Lavaliers
Pioneer
Unitarian Universalist
Unitarian Fellowship
Route 67A
West Street
North
Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church
Church of God
St. Mary’s In the Mountains
John C. Morris
Federated Church
Arlington Chorale
Christian Education Committee
Bailey Hall
Charlotte Towne
Sage City Symphony Group
Candlelight Motel
Einar Michealson
Church Women United
All Faiths Chapel
Vermont Veterans Home
Father Quinn
M. Everett Corbett
St. James Episcopal Church
John T. Adams
Zion Episcopal Church
St. John the Baptist Catholic Church
Floyd la Bombard
Muriel Kennard
John Riddle Jr
Piutti
van Hulse
Purcell
Baptist Youth Fellowship
Shaftsbury Methodist Church
West Arlington
David Bort
Second Congregational
Old Bennington
Church Barn
Warren H. Morgan
Charles P. Scott
C. Stevens
Ladies Aid Society
Church of Christ West
First Church of Christ, Scientist
Hillside St
Christ Jesus
East Dorset
John P. R. Morgan
Shakers Road
Kenneth W. Beatty
Bennington-Troy District of Troy
District Council — On Ministries
Troy
Richard Campbell
Charles Graham
Goa
India
Howard Family Singers
Howard
Missionary Alliance
Crescent Boulevard
Henry Howard
Andrew Howard
Morris Howard
Ave
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