Area Church Notices Overview of Weekly Services and Activities
A dense list of church notices across towns detailing worship times sermons and parish activities. Congregations including Congregational North Bennington Federated East Arlington First Baptist Shaftsbury First United Methodist Manchester and others provide schedules for worship Bible study choir practice Sunday school meals programs and youth clubs. Also notes a Lenten noon reading by Rev Frederick Buechner at Zion Parish and various meetings and special services across multiple parishes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congregational Church
North Bennington
Christian Education Committee
Federated Church
East Arlington
Mary Burton-Beinecke
Arlington Chorale
First Congregational Church
Old Bennington
Arvel M. Steece
Mountain Congregational Association
Ladies Aid Society
Old Stone Church
Independent Baptist
Edwin M. Ellis
Church of Christ West
World Day of Prayer unites women from area churches
Seventy five women from multiple denominations gathered at North Bennington Baptist Church for World Day of Prayer. Rev Dr Mary Burton Beinecke led a meditation on stillness and unity with prayers and poems, as a choir accompanied by Beinecke. Local events collect funds for Church Women United and World Day of Prayer projects, with upcoming interfaith dessert and a May Fellowship Day planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Bennington Baptist Church
Mary Burton- Beinecke
A. R. Galusha
Eugene Kosche
Virginia Dooley
Clyde Dunlap
Alvan Lawrence
Beinecke
Church Women United
New York
Robert Buck
Colgate Hall
Bennington Baptist Church
Hoolick Falls
N.Y
Ruth Rudd
Hoosick Baptist Church
Hoosick
Rosemary Gilson
Cindy Bugbee
Kathy Hayden
Wendy Kerr
Virginia Lavin
Troy Conference weighs traveling van to serve 350 churches
Saratoga Springs New York plans by the Board of Global Ministries of the Troy Conference United Methodist Church test a traveling van. It would carry educational resources to churches in northeastern New York and Vermont for review and potential adoption. A task force led by Mrs Leta Carothers surveys church leaders for reaction while Rev Donald A Brushett builds support across his 109 Burlington District churches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saratoga Springs
N.Y
Board of Global Ministries
Troy
Conference Council On Ministries
Leta Carothers
Salisbury
Burlington
Donald A. Brushett
Unitarian Fellowship Brings Henrys on Marriage Talk
The Unitarian Fellowship of Bennington will host Barbara and Jim Henry this Sunday March 16 at 10 30 a.m. at McCullough Library North Bennington to discuss Marriage encounter as a tool in Healthy Marriage All interested persons welcome. Lutherans to spend 1 million for Christ College site work in Irvine California.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Mormons
McCullough Library
North Bennington
Sacrament
Unitarian Fellowship
Unitarian Fellowship of
Bennington
Barbara
Jim Henry
ST. Louis
UPI
The
Lutheran Church’s
Missouri Synod
Christ College
Irvine
Calif
Hymn Sing Planned by West Arlington United Methodist Church
West Arlington United Methodist Church schedules a Passion Sunday hymn sing for March 16 at 7 p.m. using the new Book of Hymns. Pastor Rev. David J. Bort leads an informal program with Mrs. Elizabeth Finney on organ and a post event fellowship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Methodist Church
West Arlington
David Bort
Arlington
Elizabeth Finney
Ladies Aid Society
Bart
United Methodist Relief Agency
UMCOR
Bennington Area
Judas Lent Service at First Shaftsbury March 19
Bennington Area Ecumenical Council of Churches sponsors a Wednesday Lenten service on March 19 at 7 30 p m at First Shaftsbury. Eugene Kosche will present Judas in Living Lenten Portraits. Senior Choir directed by Mrs Alvan Lawrence will perform He Stood Alone and organist plays Bach Handel and Beethoven works. Fellowship follows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington Area
J.S. Bach
G.F. Handel
Ludwig van Beethoven
Shaftsbury
United Methodist Women
First United Methodist Church
Joseph's Garden
Debbie Castle
Karen Hall
Penny Brown
Dawn Wood
World Service
First Baptist
Bennington
First Baptist Church
United Methodist
Carl Farnham
Grace Mitchell
Palm Sunday cantata set for Manchester
The Green Mountain Music Club sponsors a Palm Sunday cantata No Greater Love by John W. Peterson on March 23 at 3 p.m. at Zion Episcopal Church in Manchester. The chorus is directed by Mrs. Doris Lawrence with Mrs. Phyllis Beattie on piano. Narrator Rev. David Bort and benediction by Rev. Father Clayton. Soloists include Joan Bort Dorothy Burns Jane Davis Anne DeAndris Barbara Olmstead Ellen Wilcox. Additional singers are Kim Andrews Liz Counsell Patricia Dupree Dee Straker Arlene Heiland Eva Hilburn Marilyn Kinney Carole McClure Addie Overton Barbara Powers Mary Jane Rounds Fran Ryan Sandy Waller.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester
Green Mountain Music Club
John W. Peterson
Zion Episcopal Church
Joan Bort
Dorothy Burns
Jane Davis
Anne DeAndris
Barbara Olmstead
Ellen Wilcox
Kim Andrews
Liz Counsell
Patricia Dupree
Dee Straker
Arlene Heiland
Eva Hilburn
Marilyn Kinney
Carole McClure
Addie Overton
Barbara Powers
Mary Jane Rounds
Fran Ryan
Sandy Waller
Religion in America Hunger unites church bodies
UPI reports a broad push by American religious groups to address world hunger. Leaders urge beyond charity toward systemic solutions, urging church members to back policies reshaping economic systems for fairer food distribution, with Catholic and Episcopal voices calling for justice as well as aid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David E. Anderson
UPI
Pew
American Lutheran Church
Washington
Sahel
India
Bangladesh
Fr. J. Bryan Hehir
Division of Justice and Peace
Catholic Bishops’ Action
U.S. Catholic Conference
Hehir
Paul
Episcopal Church
Council
Also Mentioned on This Page
Area Church Notices
All Faiths Chapel
Vermont
Webcais
M. Everett Corbett
Missionary Alliance Church
Family Bible School
John R. Carlson
Brattleboro
Jesus Christ
Jerusalem
Women’s Missionary Prayer Fellowship
Second Congregational Church
St. Peter’s
Society of Friends
Quakers
Bennington Free Library
Baptist Church
Wilmington
Richard D. Campbell
Circle III
Carolyn Clark
School Street
Circle I
Circle IV
Alfred Severs
West Road
the Messenger
Floyd la Bombard
Roberton
Baptist Youth Fellowship
Marge Jones
Lee Hammond
A.J. MacDonald
Calvary
Paul Rodney
Joseph’s Garden
Judas
Jerome H. Hevey Jr
School of Religion
Pilgrim Singers
Liberty Belles
Community Church
Woodford
Louis A. Cook
North Pownal
John P. R. Morgan
St. James Episcopal Church
John T. Adams
Dorothy Squiers
First Church of Christ Scientist
Jeremiah
Young
Leo Hourihan
Pown
Frederick W. Vogell
D.C
Rupert
Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church
East Dorset
Seventh-day Adventist Church
George C. Mills
Buechner
Library Committee of
Zion Parish
Zion Church
Frederick Buechner
Jesus
Christ
United Church
Dorset-East Rupert
Hal C. Miller III
Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church
St. Mary’s In the Mountains
John C. Morris
Redeemer Lutheran Church
Job
Kenneth Schwebel
Church of Christ
Church of God
Pownal
David Hubbard
St. Mary Catholic Church
Methodist Church
Sandgate
Edward Clark
Kingdom Hall
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Congregation
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
St. Francis de Sales Catholic
St. John the Baptist Catholic Church
World Day of Prayer
Debbie Tudor
Dorothy Baker
Janet Bugbee
Marion Case
Phoebe James
Allison Reed
Mabel Smith
Helen Hall
Marshall Home
Mark’s Episcopal Church
Sue Lemmon
Arthur
Ivaz
Javery
Ernest H. Javery
Alan H
South Street
Hymn Sing Planned
Doris Lawrence
Phyllis Beattie
Father Clayton
UMW
Walker
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