Religion in America Legal Supports Bible in Public Schools
A Religious Instruction Association study shows 84 public high schools from Massachusetts to California teach religion objectively within English or humanities courses, using Bible as literature. Institutions like Lincoln High Bloomington and Lower Merion High Ardmore cite educational aims and popular reception. A new Bible Reader textbook and teacher guides support such curricula. broader efforts include 27 schools with religion units.
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Massachusetts
California
Religious Instruction Association
Lincoln High School
Bloomington
Ind
Betty Stainer
Bruce Publishing Co
N.Y
Northwest Classen
Oklahoma City
Charline Burton
Harper & Row
Abingdon
Doubleday
PTA
U.S. Supreme Court
Fort Wayne
Bennington Area Church Services Schedule Summary
A Bennington area church listing details service times at First United Methodist Church Old Stone Church Congregational Church and Church of Christ. It notes worships sermons nursery provided Sunday School youth groups choir practice and midweek meetings across multiple locations.
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OLD Stone Church
Independent Baptist
North Bennington
Edwin M. Ellis
Women’s Fellowship
Janice Serrigo
Church OF Jesus Christ OF Latter Day Saints
Mormons
Masonic Temple
Young People Lead Informal Service At Manchester Church
Manchester church notes describe an 8 a.m. early service led by the First Congregational Church youth in the church parlor with adults invited. The program includes Bible study by Rev. Jerome J. Hevey Jr. and music by Miss Jean Beal, all in contemporary idiom. shuttle buses will carry skiers after the service.
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Manchester
First Congregational Church
Bromley Mountain
Joseph Meyer
James G. Anderson
Middlebury College
Jean Beal
Middlebury
Burr and Burton
Jerome J. Hevey Jr
Beal
Reginald Palmer
Reginald Counsell
Barnes
Mueller
Gladys Rooth
Manchester Depot
Manchester Day Care Center
Youth Center
New church officers to be inducted at Sunday service
New officers will be inducted at a Sunday 11 am ceremony at Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church after morning worship and sermons by Rev. John Geer. Other churches list worship times, sermons, confessions, Sunday schools, and upcoming ecumenical service at Church of the Immaculate Conception in Hoosick Falls. Local church news notes annual meetings, trustee and deacon elections, and committee appointments across communities.
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Our Lady OF Fatima Catholic Church
Wilmington
Manchester
Orrin Griffis
First Congregation
Jerome J. Hevey Jr
Circle A
United Women’s Fellowship
Francis Smalley
Sydney Stokes
Richard MacDonald
Clifford Harwood
Frederick Lawrence
Alton Hicks
Schner
Timothy Bryant
Robert Baker
Hevey
Francis Coburn
Reginald Counsell
John Townsend
Newell Hamlin
Howard Dailey
Dailey
Robert Treat
Hugh Perkins
G. Murray Campbell
Walter Hayes
Bryant
Milton Rockwell
Harrison Hoyt Sr
Joseph Fowler
Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Church of the Immaculate Conception
Main Street
Manchester church forms Jordan Memorial Fund at First Baptist
At the Manchester First Baptist Church annual meeting the Constance Jordan Memorial Fund was created for organ maintenance with offerings at the church office. The church also voted to join the Great Stewardship Movement for Vermont Baptist State Convention ministries. Officers named include James West moderator and Louise Hartwell treasurer. A ham dinner preceded the meeting. The pastor Rev Joseph D. Huse will lead an adult study on Baptist Beliefs and Practices starting Monday at 7:30 p.m. in February at the parsonage.
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Manchester Center
Joseph D. Huse
Manchester
First Baptist Church
Constance Jordan
Vermont Baptist State Convention Ministries
James West
Margaret Wilson
Louise Hartwell
Marjorie Porter
Marion Gaudette
Earl Hill
Ora Converse
Sarah Reynolds
Maurice Thompson
Deborah Ameden
Prudential Committee
Elizabeth Taylor
Nadine Hayes
Huse
New minister lays out goals for local Baptists
The First Baptist Church adopted a $39,000 budget at its annual meeting led by moderator Lewis Come. Pastor Floyd I. La Bombard outlined five goals for the coming year including a 23 percent rise in church attendance and a 25 percent rise in church school attendance, plus expanded family sponsorship, youth outreach, and involvement with Hilltop House in Brattleboro Vermont.
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First Baptist Church
Lewis Come
Lewis Carpenter
Richard Hunt
Floyd I. la Bombard
Youth elected to vestry of Zion Episcopal Church
In Manchester, Zion Episcopal Church elected for the first time a youth to its vestry. William Cairns, Burr and Burton Seminary junior class president, joined other vestry members Alexander Baldwin Joseph Ringwall and George Osborne, who also became senior warden. The January 21 meeting discussed 1971 75 plans, budgets and parish reports.
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Manchester
Zion Episcopal Church
Willaim Cairns
Burr and Burton Seminary
Alexander Baldwin
Dorset
Joseph Ringwall
East Dorset
George Osborne
Dan Noble
Douglas Shaw
Guy Campbell
Rupert
Norman Roberts
Manchester Depot
Burlington Jehovahs Witnesses Convene Three Day Assembly
Witnesses plan a three day convention at Edmunds Junior High School Burlington February 12 to 14 led by Harvey Hiatt Bennington congregation presiding minister. About 900 members from 16 Vermont and New Hampshire congregations expected with meals lodging and lectures symposiums and dramatizations on Bible topics to be staged in a large Kingdom Hall setup.
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Harvey Hiatt
Bennington
Jehovah's
Burlington
Vermont
New Hampshire
Edmunds Junior High School
Jehovah's Witnesses
Convention Planning Organization
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Arthur Murphy
Harvey Kevorkian
Ronald Myers
Edward Ransom
John H. Williams III
John Duval
Richard B. Leake Jr
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Edwin Peterson
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Wesley Fellowship
Barbara Wager
Gage St
WSCS
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Roberta Rich
Robert L. Clayton
Harvey D. Butterfield
Daughters of Zion
R.S. Fenn
Edward T. Patrick
ST. James Episcopal Church
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Lawrence A. Sherwin
ALL Faiths
M. Everett Corbett
First Church OF Christ Scientist
Old Bennington
Church Barn
Arvel M. Steece
Jerome Campbell
Lord
Tschaikowsky
Ladies Aid Society
Robert O. Roberts
Colonial Garden Apartments
Federated Church
East Arlington
John Geer
ST. Margaret Mary Catholic Church
Gerald T. Buckley
Henry A. Peck
West Rupert
Howard B. Ford Jr
United Methodist Church
Pownal
David Hubbard
West Arlington
United Church
Dorset—East Rupert
R. Hal. C. Miller III
Ecumenical
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Kenneth Schwebel
Perrault
ST. Mary’s IN the Mountains
Russell Gale
Society OF Friends
Bennington Free Library
Missionary Alliance Church
Franklyn J. Klein Jr
Alfred Scott
Shaftsbury
A.J. MacDonald
Byles
UMYF
Second Congregational Church
Floyd I. LaLombard
Board of Missions and Stewardship
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Michael Sharp
Hilltop House
Brattleboro
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Woodstock
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Edward Jaeckle
Osborne
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