Area Church Notices for Independence Day Week
A list of services across Zion Episcopal Manchester Center St Johns Chapel in Bennington Dorset East Rupert Rupert Congregational Rupert Our Lady of Lourdes North Pownal St Francis de Sales North Bennington and other churches with times for masses worship services Sunday school and special services including July 4 observances and guest speakers.
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Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Mormons
McCullough Library
North Bennington
Sacrament
Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church
North Pownal
Congregational Church
East Dorset
Summer church school opens at Second Congregational Bennington
The 4th Ecumenical Summer Vacation Church School will run July 6–16 at Hillside Street's Second Congregational Church from 9:30 to 11:30. Sponsored by the Bennington Religious Education Foundation, the program welcomes children aged three through those who have completed Grade Four regardless of faith. Call 442-3874 for details. Visitors welcome at various local services and events noted, including Bicentennial programs and a country market.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Second Congregational
Hillside Street
Bennington Religious Education Foundation
First Congregational Church
Old Bennington
Arvel M. Steece
Monica Murray
Hoffmeister
Sibelius
Church Lane
First Church
Famine in Ethiopia and church service notices
Famine in Ethiopia raises alarm as Catholic Relief Services reports possible new drought-induced famine and shipments of food and supplies. In Arlington, St James Episcopal Church lists 8 am Holy Communion and 10 am Eucharist with sermons by Rev. John T. Adams and Rev. Max H. Webster, plus nursery and babysitting. Wednesday and Friday Noon Meals program daily. Union Worship at Second Congregational Church with Rev. Sidney J. Lambert, and involvement from Redeemer Lutheran Church. St Peter's Episcopal Church offers 8 am Holy Communion and 10 am Celebration of Holy Communion with sermon by Rev. Kenneth W. Costin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Mary’s In the Mountains
Wilmington
John C. Morris
Church of Christ West
Congregational Church
North Bennington
Matthew Broadbent
First Congregational Church
Manchester
Jerome J. Hevey Jr
Family Bible School
WBTN
Robert Wagner
Aline LaFlamme
Marion Carlson
New Believer
New York
UPI
Catholic Relief Services
Ethiopia
St. James Episcopal Church
Arlington
John T. Adams
Max H. Webster
Second Congregational Church
Sidney J. Lambert
First United Methodist Church
the Redeemer Lutheran Church
St. Peter’s Episcopal Church
John P. Riddle, Jr
Kenneth W. Costin
Saint Peter’s Episcopal Church
Anglican Church In
America
John Riddle
Saint Peter’s
Moral debate on America's moral future at 200th anniversary
United States faces a moral test amid sex scandals and Watergate fallout with religious leaders split on decay versus rebirth. Cardinal Manning and Billy Graham voice optimism for a moral renaissance, while figures like Joe West and Marc Tanenbaum warn of decline and call for steadfast virtue.
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Donald E Mullen
United Press International
United States
Washington
Timothy Manning
Los Angeles
America
Joe West
San Antonio
Tex
West
Pope will not attend World Eucharistic Congress
Pope Paul VI will not visit the United States Canada and Latin American countries for the World Eucharistic Congress in Philadelphia next month. Vatican spokesman Msgr. Romeo Panciroli cited he cannot accept despite invitations from Cardinal John Krol and Archbishop Joseph Bernardin. Officials noted the 78 year old pontiff's overwork and arthritic knees as likely factors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vatican City
UPI
Paul VI
United States
Canada
Philadelphia
Vatican
Msgr
Romeo Panciroli
John Krol
Joseph L. Bernardin
National Conference of Catholic Bishops
Mexico
Guatemala
Holy Father
Panciroli
First United Methodist Church observes Student Day
The June service featured Church School members receiving awards led by Deborah Reynolds Lisa Main Jane Cross and James Campbell with Melissa Reynolds delivering the benediction. Attendance awards honored many class members while second graders received Promotion Bibles and Baptisms were performed for seven children and one adult. Mount Anthony Union seniors affiliated with the church were recognized with gifts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First United Methodist Church
Church School
Deborah Reynolds
Lisa Main
Jane Cross
James Campbell
Melissa Reynolds
Sonya Edmonds
Gaynell Jepson
Cheryl Mort
Alison Lucy
Jill van Orden
Michael Hatch
Jenna Oeschger
Blake Gowan
Sean Edmonds
Theresa Hoard
Judy Gilman
Timmothy van Orden
Theodore Armstrong
Christopher Mort
Susan Pierce
Mary Gilman
Michael and Paul Miller
Diane Phelps
Timothy van Orden
Richard D. Campbell
Mount Anthony Union High School
Serice
Daniel Dickie
Patricia Gerity
Gayle Hartnett
Robin Kenyon
William Russ
Nadine Wisher
Nancy Wisher
Is God talk possible debate on theology and Hartford Appeal
UPI Religion Writer examines how Yale theologian George Lindbeck challenges the Hartford Appeal themes that critics say threaten genuine theology. The piece notes Lindbeck’s view of theology as a battle for possibility, and describes Saint Peter's Episcopal Church marking July 4 with a 1776 liturgy and historical practice guiding worship.
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George A. Lindbeck
Divinity School
Yale University
Lindbeck
Hartford
Women gather for annual Church Women United assembly
More than 100 Church Women United in Vermont met June 24 at Waterbury Congregational Church for their annual Assembly with the theme Journey Toward Wholeness. The program featured worship, a panel on vital concerns, a slide presentation on Project Awareness, and mini-communities leading to a closing service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterbury
Vermont
Congregational Church
Brian Stone
Tracy Frink
Montpelie
Montpelier
Paul Willard
Richard Frye
Milton
Howard Stearns
Norma Wales
Jericho
Frances Brown
St. Albans
Vermont Ecumenical Council
Donald Brown
Lawrence
Lyman van Nostrand
State Assembly
Church Women United
Ruth Powell
Townshend
Connie Kite
Governor's Commission On the Status of Women
Nellie Hayden
Bennington Church Women United
He Restoreth My Soul shown at Alliance church
Gospel Films, Inc. presents a true story of Merrill Womach, a four octave singer who survived a 1961 Beaver Marsh plane crash and long recovery. The film, premiering at Missionary Alliance Church on Sunday July 4 at 7 p.m., features his miraculous survival and vocal gift.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Gospel Films, Inc
Missionary Alliance
Merrill Womach
Spokane
Wash
Beaver Marsh
Ore
Womach
Klamath Falls
Merrill
Gospel Films, Inc
Muskegon, Mich
First bell's history across America and Vermont
Bells in churches and schools will ring July four at 2 p.m. Eastern. The Old First Church bell was first rung at Rev Absalom Peters ordination July 5 1820 and is said to be Vermont's first church bell. Governor Tichenor secured a bell from J Hanks West Troy in 1820, sent back for flaws, and rehung in 1823. Inscriptions read J Tichenor Conor 1823 and J Hanks.
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America
E.C.T
Old First Church
Absalom Peters
Vermont
Isaac Tichenor
J. Hanks
West Troy
N.Y
J. Tichenor
Conor
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Holy Co
St. John’s Chapel
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Joseph Stannard
Society of Friends
Quakers
Bennington Free Library
Baptist Church
St. Margaret Mary Catholic Church
United Methodist Church
Sandgate
Edward A. Clark
Church of Christ
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
Kingdom Hall
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Congregation
Pownat
Kenneth Schwebel
United Church
Dorset-East Rupert
Hal C. Miller III
Howard Fish
Rupert
Pownal
David Hubbard
St. Francis de Sales Catholic
Old Stone Church
Independent Baptist
Edwin M. Ellis
St. John the Baptist Catholic Church
Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church
John P. R. Morgan
Church of God
All Faiths
Vermont Veterans
M. Everett Corbett
Shaftsbury Baptist Church
Redeemer Lutheran Church
Sidney Lambert
Bref Summer Church School
Nath Pownal
Redeemer Lutheran
Harbour Road
First Methodist Church
Hillside St
Bennington
Community Church
Pownal Center
Mary Burton-Beinecke
Board of Control
West Arlington
David Bort
First Baptist Church
Floyd la Bombard
Liberty
Jom Riddle Jr
Louis Calabro
Randall Thompson
David Riddle
Fred Waring
Federated Church East
Main St
Marc Tanenbaum
American Jewish Committee
Times
Henry Steele Commager
Rabbi Tanenbaum
Billy Graham
Garden of Eden
Christ
Thomas Basich
Advent Lutheran Church
Roseville
Minn
Pope
David E. Anderson
Seabury Press
Protestant Episcopal Church In
CWU
Toby Knox
Vermont Developmental Disability Planning and Advisory Council
Department of Mental Health
Roland Kelley
Rutland
State Board of Church Women United In
United Church of Christ
Greensboro
Alliance
Catamount National Bank
F.d.1.c
First Bell
Turkeys
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