Area church unity service planned by Bennington ecumenical council
A 7:30 p.m. Sunday Jan 20 service of prayer for Christian unity will be held at Sacred Heart Church. The Rev Leo Hourihan will preach on Let Every Tongue Confess That Jesus Christ is Lord with clergy from several area churches and the First Baptist Church choir to perform I Am the Way the Truth and the Life.
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Bennington Area
Second Congregational Church
Richard D. Campbell
First United
Second Congregational Church sets 24000 goal for 17 76 fund
The Second Congregational Church pledges to raise 24000 over three years for the 17 76 Achievement Fund supporting six United Church of Christ black colleges. About 12000 had been pledged in advance. The drive is led by David Bidwell and Rev. Thomas D. Steffen after the annual meeting.
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Second Congregational Church
United Church of Christ
David Bidwell
Thomas D. Steffen
Eighth General Synod of the United Church of Christ
Grand Rapids
Mich
R. Marshall Witten
Vermont
Max H. Webster
Caroline Ostrander
United Church of Christ Board of Homeland Ministries
Board For World Ministries
Fisk University of Nashville
Tenn
Sex Education Discussion At Bennington Ecumenical Council
The January meeting of the Bennington Area Ecumenical Council of Churches will be at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the First United Methodist Church. Panelists Mrs. Janice Larrigo, Mrs. Phyllis Agard, and James Henry will discuss Sex Education Should Churches Be Involved with Rev. Allen Barnes moderating. Refreshments will be served at 7 with the program to follow at 7 30, and meetings will start a half hour earlier this year.
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Bennington Area
Missionary speaks to Shaftsbury UMW
Miss Clarra Barrett spoke to Shaftsbury United Methodist Women at the home of Mrs. Francis Peters about her work in Africa as a Rift Valley teacher and librarian serving 40 missionary families. She noted the school grew from 35 to 490 with entrance exams English fluency and work-study options. Barrett plans to return in April. A donation to Navajo Mission School was approved and Christmas baskets were reported. February meeting set for 7:30 p.m. Feb 12 with officer installations and a towel drive for the Christmas Bazaar.
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Shaftsbury
Clarra Barrett
United Methodist
Francis Peters
Miss Barrett
Interdenominational Faith Mission
Africa
Rift Valley
Nairobia
Kenya
A. Ranney Galusha
Navajo Methodist Mission School
Farmington
N. Mex
Stella Hawkins
Lenora Bradley
Grace Mitchell
Florence Allen
Fred Stacy
Robert Booth
Guy Mattison
Russell Mack
Philip Disque
East St
Galusha
Peters
Booth
Bennington Area Church Notices Periodic Local Worship and Classes
A dense list of worship services, choir rehearsals, Bible studies, and church school sessions across Bennington area congregations. Notable ministers include Rev J Richard Sherlock Rev Thomas D Steffen Rev Jerome J Hevey Jr Rev Robert L Clayton and Rev Hal C Miller III among many. Church activities span Monday through Saturday with nurseries provided and multiple parishes in North Bennington Manchester Center Dorset East Rupert and surrounding towns.
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Congregational Church
North Bennington
J. Richard Sherlock
Chapel Nursery
Thomas D. Steffen
Jerome J. Hevey Jr
Carollers
Pilgrim Singers
Chancel Choir
Zion Episcopal Church
Manchester Center
Robert L. Clayton
United Church
Dorset-East Rupert
Church
Hal C. Miller III
Richard D. Campbell
Commission On Education
MYF
Bennington
William Bryant
Council of Churches
League of Women Voters
Parlor
Bennington Area Ecumenical Council of Churches
Circle II
Sanctuary
Cherub
Floyd I. la Bombard
Vaughn Ramsey
Lewie Dodge
Purcell
Pachelbel
Friendly Circle
CWU Annual Meeting Scheduled at Second Congregational
Church Women United set to meet at 11 a.m. Wednesday with Mrs. Thomas Harrison presiding. Officers for the coming year to be installed. A noon covered dish luncheon directs by Mrs. Raymond Peirce. Mrs. Doris Gable to present slides on the Retired Senior Volunteer Program in Bennington County.
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Church Women United
Second Congregational Church
Thomas Harrison
Raymond Peirce
Doris Gable
Bennington County
Human Relations Day drive to raise $1 million for minorities
United Methodist Churches in Vermont New York and Connecticut plan a Sunday observance January 27 and launch a fundraising drive totaling one million dollars for minority group projects. Allocation covers Voluntary Service 37 percent Community Developers 34 percent Police Community Relations 3 percent Training for Ethic Groups 25 percent.
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United Methodist
Vermont
New York
Connecticut
Slum priest criticizes Rome church and city leaders
Rev. Roberto Sardelli, who serves Rome’s shantytown residents, writes to Pope Paul IV accusing the diocese of neglecting the poor. He says Rome harbors violence, arrogance, prostitution, and drug use, urging the Pope to act personally amid social and housing crises and wide church publicity.
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Paul Hofmann
N.Y
Rome
Paul IV
Roberto Sardelli
Vatican
Paul
Father Sardelli
L’avventire
Ugo Cardinal Poletti
Pope Paul
India
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Area Church Council
Service of Christian Unity
Talladega Cllege
Talladega
Ala
Tougaloo College
Tugaloo
Miss
Dillard University of New Orleans
LeMoyne-Owen College
Memphis
Houston- Tillotson College
Austin
Tex
Fisk
Alabama
Tougaloon College
Jackson
Dillard
LeMoyne-Owen
Houston-Tillotson
Pacific
Near East
Latin America
Manfred W. Ehrich Jr
Walter Dunham
Richard F. Bower
Milton Pinsker
Albert Ray
LeRoy Marsden
Gordon Welch
Robert Willard
Ronald Knapp
Lee Shoemaker
George Serrigo
Roderick Humphreys
Virginia Worden
Richard Caswells
Loomis Dana
Church Cabinet
Lay Life and Work
Lerrigo
Witten
Council
Walker
Bennington Area Church Notices
First Congregational Church
Manchester
All Faiths Chapel
Vermont Veterans Home
M. Everett Corbett
First Church of Christ, Scientist
Community Church
Pownat
Douglas Weiss
Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church
Wilmington
St. Francis de Sales Catholic
St. John the Baptist Catholic Church
Methodist Church
Sandgate
John Geer
St. Mary’s In the Mountains
John C. Morris
St. Margaret Mary Catholic Church
Arlington
Gerald T. Buckley
Church of Christ
Open Bible Church
Woodford Hollow
Paul M. Carr
Church of Christ West
Woodford
Louis A. Cook
Church of God
Leslie Wright
United Methodist Church
West Arlington
David Bort
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Mormons
McCullough Library
Sacrament
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
Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church
North Pownal
East Dorset
Baptist Church
Pownal
Kenneth Schwebel
David Hubbard
Jim Metcalf
Springfield
UPI
Pentecostal Evangel
the Evangel
The
Evangel
Kingdom Hall
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Congregation
St. James Episcopal Church
Lawrence A. Sherwin
First United Methodist Church
Redeemer Lutheran Church
Allen Barnes
St. Peter’s Episcopal Church
Kenneth W. Costin
First Baptist Church
Old Bennington
Church Barn
Arvel M. Steece
George Elwell
Mountain Congregational Association
Ladies Aid Society
Federated Church East
Angus J. MacDonald
Roger Wilson
Leo Hourihan
Missionary Alliance Church
Franklyn J. Klein Jr
CWU
Salt Lake City
Utah
Mormon
Martin’s Shoe Store
North
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