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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1968
Page
3
Christian observance of the Lenten season began last week and will continue until Easter Sunday April 14. Louis Cassels reports for United Press International on how traditions and practices have evolved across centuries and regions.
The Rev. C. Keith Payne and his father will lead 8:30 and 11 a.m. services at First Baptist Church and present a sermonic dialogue on whether the Christian church can survive today’s revolution and how to regain youth loyalty and support.
The Sunday School addition to the Baptist Church in North Bennington will be dedicated next Sunday March 17 at 3 p.m. The dedication will be assisted by Rev. Abernethy Rev. Miller Rev. Payne and Rev. MacDonald. Dr Otto Nallinger will be guest speaker at the 11 a.m. service and open house in the new facility runs from 3 to 4 p.m.
Vermont church notices list worship services and programs across Bennington area churches. Includes First Church of God Faith Bible Baptist Woodford Hollow Federated East Arlington Congregational North Pownal and Old Stone Church North Bennington with service times sermons by Rev. W Earle Forman Rev William Hunsicker Rev Max H Webster and Rev Llwin M. Ellis plus Sunday School youth groups and midweek prayer.
The First Methodist Church at Shaftsbury elected officers and heard reports from Rev. A J MacDonald and others. Membership reached 340 with 62 preparatory members and 17 new members last year. 11 baptisms, five weddings, seven funerals. The church took on continuous law and clerical ministry at Warner Nursing Home and reported progress on taxes relief and clothing aid, plus education and youth programs.
Leslie Schultz Jr. is reassigned as pastor for the Bennington district succeeding Mere A. Taylor who moves to Rochester New Hampshire to oversee parishes in Portsmouth and Laconia. Schultz, a 1963 Atlantic Union College graduate in religion, interned in Toledo Ohio and then worked three years in Hillsboro Ohio. He and his wife Audrey and their two children reside in the church parsonage on Mechanic Street in North Bennington.
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