Baptist Church Approves Plans For L H Nichols Building
The First Baptist Church unanimously approved plans for the Lester H Nichols Christian Education Building on Main Street. Bids for construction, estimated at 250000, will be sought with completion expected by January 1 1966. The gift from Lester H Nichols funded the project after a 200000 provisioned gift with a 90000 church fund drive. The structure will be named in Nichols honor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Baptist Church
Main Street
Hartheimer Associates
Albany
N.Y
Lester H. Nichols Christian Education
Christian Education
Lester H. Nichols
Easter Play Tryouts Set by Bennington Church
Tryouts for the Jericho Road Easter play at First Baptist Church in Bennington are scheduled for Sunday at 1 30 pm. The production, part of the Easter program by the Bennington Council of Churches, seeks Mary and additional youth performers and choristers. Rehearsals pause in February, resume in March, with current cast listing young Jesus Paul Riddle and others.
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Jesus
Mary
Jericho Road
First Baptist Church
Norton Barber
Old Bennington
Bennington
Ricky Howe
James
Timmy Stratton
Eleazer
Mar
Missionary Alliance Reports Record 1964 Contributions
The Christian and Missionary Alliance announced a record 4.454 million dollars in missionary offerings for 1964, a 6 percent rise over 1963, with December totaling 525,000. The group, comprising 75,000 members in 1,200 U S and Canadian churches, aims for 4.635 million in 1965 to fund 900 missionaries in 24 overseas fields.
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New York
Friends of the Christian and Missionary Alliance
B. S. King
Alliance
United States
Canada
Christian and Missionary Alliance
King
Alliance Board of Managers
World Day of Prayer Scheduled March 5
Millions of Christian women in the United States and scores of countries will observe World Day of Prayer on March 5. Sponsored by United Church Women the event supports global mission work and follows the theme What Doth the Lord Require Mic 6 8 with services prepared by Mrs Jesse Jai McNeil of Pasadena.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
United States
United Church Women
National Council of Churches
United Mission Enterprises
National Council
Jesse Jai McNeil
Pasadena
Calif
McNeil
National Baptist Convention U.S.A., Inc
Seas Ministries Division
Christian Colleges
World Council of Churches
Church Women
Riverside Drive
N.Y
Stuart E. Sinclair
Greenfield
Mass
UCW
Marriage and the Family discussed at Ecumenical Youth Forum
The third in a six part series will meet Sunday at 7 p.m. at Second Congregational Church with panelists from St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church St. Peter's Episcopal Church and North Bennington Congregational Church. Rev. Stephen C. Greene moderates. High school students invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Second Congregational Church
Thomas Bransfield
St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church
Frederick B. Wolf
St. Peter’s Episcopal Church
William Abernethy
North Bennington Congregational Church
Stephen C. Greene
Hunger For Holiness Seen Drinkers Reason
Harvard psychology professor DD McClelland, speaking at USC, proposes a hunger for holiness drives drinking. He notes volunteers fed alcohol think about life, death, and eternity, suggesting religion offers answers and religion often opposes liquor as competition. He adds post drink concerns include sex, aggression, and health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
McClelland
Harvard
University of Southern California
Area First Methodist Church Worship Services and Activities
Area First Methodist Church holds 9 and 11 a.m. worship with the sermon If You Ask and Receive Not. Nursery at 9, church school for ages 3 through Grade 9, 10 a.m. senior high, youth confirmation. 5:30 p.m. Family Fellowship Night with pictures and dolls from Mrs. Van der Groef. Circle II serves supper. 6:30 p.m. Senior MYF business. 7 p.m. Youth Ecumenical Series at Second Congregational Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Vander Groef
Circle II
Stephen C. Greene
Barnon Monument Circle
Rom
William Thomson
John H. Mason
Vander Groef
First Methodist Church
Methodist Church
Church State Strife Eases Over School Aid Bill
Washington report notes a rare consensus among Catholic and Protestant leaders on President Johnsons 1.2 billion education bill aimed at aiding schools in poverty areas. The plan envisions public control of funds, shared reading materials, and centers to support both public and private education, seeking a path through long-state parochial disputes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPD
House
General Education Subcommittee
Johnson
Unitarian Fellowship to Hear Paul Kirsch on Education
Church notices list speakers across denominations this Sunday. Paul Kirsch of Bennington GradEd School District will discuss The Times They Are A-Changin at the Unitarian Fellowship 10:30 a.m. at Bennington Library, with Sunday school at the same hour and coffee at 11:30.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Kirsch
Bennington Graded School
Unitarian Fellowship
Bennington
Kirsch
Alliance Church
Alliance Youth Fellowship
AYF
Sunapee
N.H
Clarke
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Maurice C. Douglass
Frank Hegel
Mabel Weller
Carroll Killen
Barbara Wagner
Leonard Black
Vin Sutton
Scribe
William Rowe
Gamaliel
Marilyn Cone
Rachel
John Riddle
John Riddle Jr
Asriel
Jim Wickenden
Bruce Davis
Scott Dickie
Breard H. Hawks
Wallis Smith
Marvin Sutton
Lewie Dodge
Leon Orr
William Kennedy
Board of Deacons
Flora Aja
Marjorie Black
Lestina Carpenter
Board of Deaconesses
Paul DeConinck
Robert Harrington
Alice Harrington
Board of Trustees
Gwendolyn Lewis
Fern DeConinck
Osborne Gaines
Mary Coulter
Board of Christian Education
William Harrington
David Downey
Harold Hilliard Jr
Board of Tellers
Florence Moore
Marion Riddle
Kathryn Edson
Board of Missions and Stewardship
Charles Comstock
Deborah Eddington
H. Glenn Payne
Missionary Alliance
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St. Mary’s Guild of
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Arlington
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Steve Canyon
Chic Young
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