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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1970
Page
3
Religion in America outlines church clustering as a cooperative model where multiple congregations share resources while maintaining individual identities. The United Church of Christ and United Presbyterian Church promote the approach, pushing joint youth work, study programs, and new community services like coffee houses, day care, and counseling centers with pamphlets and COA distribution to pastors.
The United Women’s Fellowship of the First Congregational church in Manchester announces its annual summer sale and barbecue on the Village Green Saturday Aug. 8. Chicken barbecue tickets go on sale in advance at the church office with servings at 5:30 and 6:30 p.m. The event features food, homemade candy, gifts, knit items, aprons, pot holders, trash and treasures, games for children, and a lemonade stand.
EAST DORSET The 10th annual chicken barbecue and summer sale will be held Saturday. Serving begins at 5 p.m. and continues until all meals are served. Homemade foods and handmade articles will be on sale. A white or san.
The Rev. Lewis M. chaplain of Green Mountain College will preach at 11 a.m. Sunday at Old Bennington’s First Congregational Church. His talk is titled Where Do You Draw the Line. He holds a Colgate bachelor’s and a Colgate Rochester divinity degree, studied at the Sorbonne and SUNY Albany, and teaches religion and philosophy at Green Mountain. He previously pastored in Maine, New Jersey, and New York, served six years as a navy chaplain, and has been active in evangelism and communications with the American Baptist Convention.
Multiple congregations list Sunday worship times sermons and services. Notable speakers include Rev Lewis Brehaut Rev James Clouser and Rev Max Webster with choirs organists and guest speakers. Parsonage Bible studies prayer meetings and nursery services listed across Arlington Shaftsbury North Rupert Pownal Dorset-East Rupert Wilmington and Manchester.
The Congregational Church hosts a two week Vacation Bible School co sponsored by the local Methodist Church and Church of Christ of West Rupert for kindergarten through grade six with sessions Monday through Friday 9 to 11 30 a m starting Monday and concluding Friday July 31 Also listed are worship services Sunday school and activities at multiple churches in Rupert including First Baptist Manchester Center Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Old Stone Church Our Lady of Fatima Vermont Soldiers Home and First Congregational with various sermons and programs across the week.
The Bennington Council of Church Women United announces a six week Mission Studies program with a theme Doing Our Thing for Christ. Sessions start Sept 8 at St Peter's Episcopal Church from 9 45 until 11 00 with coffee and devotional moments. Scheduled speakers include Ann and Bill Abernethy and Ralph Wright with Paul Bohne III, Oct 13 features Mrs Peter Tacey.
Joseph D. Huse longtime pastor of First Baptist Church in Manchester will be ordained at 8 p.m. Sunday August 16 in a service at the church. The event features K Porter James West State Convention and midwest representatives. Huse, Indiana native, earned cum laude honors at Indiana Central College in 1966 and a bachelor of divinity from Andover Newton Theological School this May. The ordination was approved after a March election and a professional ministry examination by the state convention.
Shaftsbury news notes a Daily Vacation Church School opens Monday at First United Methodist Church for 10 to 1130 a.m. sessions through July 31, welcoming kindergartners to those finishing Grade 6. Two week program includes 25 cent registration, DVCS pins, and daily activities led by Mrs Browe and staff. A final day picnic at Bennington Battle Park is planned with attendance certificates.
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