Three Churches Name Canvassers For Cooperative Drive
Three Bennington churches organize a cooperative financial canvass with 98 volunteers scheduled to ring doors Sunday from 2 to 5 p.m. The effort aims to raise pledges totaling 820,000.00 for the American Bible Society anniversary year and Bible distribution. Names listed include Ernest Gratz Edward Arm strong John Millington Mrs Luella Wilson and others from First Methodist Shaftsbury and Bennington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Methodist Church
Shaftsbury
Ernest Gratz
Edward Armestrong
John Millington
Luella Wilson
Laura Montegomery
Emma Hoyt
Shirley Paddock
Eugene Kosche
William Center
Marshall Lyons
Virginia Dooley
Julia Booth
Howard Stevens
Thomas Morgan
Installation Service Sunday Night for Rev Thomas D Steffen
Installation service at Second Congregational Church Sunday at 7 30 p m to bless the pastoral relationship with Rev Thomas D Steffen. Bennington Association of Congregational Churches delegates local clergy and friends invited. reception after the service. Canvassers to report results to local church by 5 p m or between 7 and 9 p m Sunday. Planning committee includes Robert Russ Robert Wagner Walter Noyes Jr Harold Cross and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas D. Steffen
Second Congregational Church
Bennington Association of Congregational Churches
William Abernethy
North Bennington Congregational Church
Robert Dana
United Congregational Church of
Dorset
Association Committee On
John Kennedy
Bennington Association
Bennington
Paul Hurlburt
Lester Nichols
John Flitcroft
John Harwood
William Kennedy
Robert Wagner
Esther Tudor
Florence Towseley
Carroll G. Killen
Leon Orr
Lewie Dodge
Edgar Killian
Maud Edeson
Barbara Bennett
Rose Morsrissey
Leonard Black
Harold Hilliard
Paul Jones
Soo Ho Han
Walter Knights
Maurice Dougelass
Susan Buck
Charles Comestock
Mabel Towart
Paul Williams
Mary Whitecway
Mary Coulter
Maurice Winn
Frank Hegel
Lois Barrett
Josephine Shepard
Rene Boutin
James Vince
H. Glenn Payne
Robert Russ
Walter Noyes, Jr
Harold Cross
Melvin McGaughey
Eleanor J. Lawrence
Angus MacDonald
All Bach Organ Program At St Francis de Sales Church
Sister M St Bernard of Mt Joseph Motherhouse Rutland will give the second of three organ recitals at St Francis De Sales Church Sunday evening Nov 14 at 7 30 The All Bach program opens with Prelude and Fugue in B Minor and ends with Toccata and Fugue in D Minor The event is sponsored by the Friends of St Josephs Novitiate Rutland with no admission charge and offerings accepted The recitalist studies and the music is described as a unique reward evening by Rutland Herald reviewer Richard Austin
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Francis de Sales Church
St. Bernard of Mt. St. Joseph Motherhouse
Rutland
Allesandro Esposito
Pius XII Institute
Florence
Italy
Cardinal Spellman
Catherine Crozier
St. Charles Church
Bellows Falls
Richard Austin
Rutland Herald
Austin
Bennington
Mary St. Bernard
Friends of St. Jossph’s Novitiate of
Bennington Area Church Events and Services Schedule
Church and community notices detail a full week of services religion classes and events at Bennington churches including 9:30 a m Bible school 11 a m worship and communion sermon by Rev John W Van der Groef organ solos and choir offerings. Monday School of Religion session and November UNICEF support plus National Methodist Conference attendance. Unitarian and First Church notices include Holy Communion and canvassing plans and junior senior MYF meetings. Wednesday and Friday activities list youth and choir rehearsals and Thursday Boy Scout Troop 55. The document also covers Christian Science services and readings with the weekly topic Adam and Fallen Man and related scripture from Ecclesiastes and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John W. Vander Groef
Ralph C. Lindsey
Terri
J.G. Walther
John. H. Mason
School of Religion
Second Congregational Church
Unicef
A.J. MacDonald
Eleanor Lawrence
Clinton McDonald
MYF
Our Church
United Church
Carol Watkin
Ricky Peterson
Steve McGaughey
Joanne Mason
Faye Hamilton
Bennington School of Religion
Circle V
Parlor
Circle III
Catherine Burt
Lyons St
Frances Hewson
Betty Cross
First Church OF Christ Scientist
Hillside St
WBTN
Cain and
Abel
Christian Science Church
Ecclesiastes
Christ Jesus
God
Mary Baker Eddy
Missionary Alliance
Richard Lenehan
C&ma
Baliem
Iran
Alliance Witness
Herbert Maccauley
H. Glenn Payne
Paul Williams
Lorenz
Wilson
Bach
William Cota
Soo Ho Han
Walter Knights
Vicky
Patty Knights
Baptist Youth Fellowship
Board of Christian Education
James Toolan
National Council of Churches Forging a Controversial Religious Coalition
The National Council of Churches NCC formed in 1950 by 29 denominations has grown to 31 groups with about 40 million members yet faces strong Southern opposition over racial, political, and social stances. It advocates racial justice, opposes segregation, supports civil rights, and engages in international relief and interdenominational education while guiding member churches in social policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
National Council of the Churches of Christ
U.S.A
National Council of Churches
NCC
South
Episcopal Church
St. Louis
Methodist Church
Presbyterian U.S. Church
Disciples of Christ
Southern Baptist Convention
Overseas Relief Department
Church World Service
Division of
Christian Educationes
Division of Foreign Missions
Home Missions Division
Supreme Court
General Board
General Assembly
Shaftsbury WSCS Bazaar Sets Nov 13 at First Methodist
The Women's Society of Christian Service of First Methodist Church will hold its annual pre holiday bazaar on November 13 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Items for sale include dry goods fudge food jewelry white elephants decorations stationery and refreshments. The public is invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shaftsbury
Women’s Society of Christian Service
First Methodist Church
Protestants Split Seen as Barrier to Christian Unity
UC Berkeley sociologists Charles Glock and Rodney Stark argue that factional divides within Protestantism threaten ecumenism more than Catholic Protestant differences. A survey of 1,987 adults shows new intra Protestant cleavages about divinity and Jesus' nature may impede unity, with only 40 percent of Congregationalists saying Jesus is the divine son of God.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berkeley
Calif
UPI
University of California
Charles Y. Glock
Glock
Rodney Stark
Ings
Jesus
God
Pieta Back in Place as Return Preparations Begin
Vatican officials ready St Peter's Basilica to reinstall Michelangelo's Pieta once it arrives from New York where the 6,700 pound marble statue was shown for a year and a half at the World's Fair. The sculpture, insured for $6 million, departed by ship and is due in Rome next week as workmen prepare during the Ecumenical Council recess.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vatican City
UPI
St. Peter’s Basilica
New York
Vatican
Rome
St. Peter’s
Ecumenical Service in Burlington to Feature Rev Dr Eugene L Smith
Burlington hosts an ecumenical worship service in Ira Allen Chapel at 7 30 p m Monday Nov 8 with Rev Dr Eugene L Smith executive secretary of the World Council of Churches in the United States as principal speaker. A veteran church leader he chairs multiple councils and has served as general secretary of the World Missions Division of the Methodist Church and held roles with the National Council of Churches and the World Methodist Council. Born 1912 in Rockwell City Iowa he holds degrees from Willamette Drew and New York University and has traveled widely as a missionary secretary making his first Vermont visit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burlington
Ira Allen Chapel
Eugene L. Smith
United States
World Council of Churches
U.S
National Council of Churches
World Methodist Council
World Council
Smith
Division of World Missions
Board of Missions of
The
Methodist Church
Commission On Religion and Race
Division of World Mission and Evangelism
Rockwell City
Iowa
Willamette Univ
Salem
Oregon
Drew Theological Seminary
Madison
N.J
New York University
Amsterdam
New Delhi
India
Mexico City
Mexico
Willingen
Germany
Accra
Ghana
Vermont
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First Methodist
American Bible Society
Lincoln Center
Park Avenue
G. David White
Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherds
Clinton, Mass
John Vander Groef
First Congregational Church
Old Bennington
Woman’s Fellowship of the Church
Steffen
Sus Amati
Paul VI
United Nations
M. St. Bernard
Kalman Antos
Manhattanville College
OLD First Church
Cincinnati
Ohio
National Methodist Conference On Christian Education
ST. Peter’s Episcopal
Herbert W. Sanderson Jr
Father Sanderson
Herbert W. Sanderson Sr
Margaret
Rebecca
Catherine
Unitarian - Universalist
Unitarian Fellowship
Bennington Free Library
Silver Street
Ivan Masser
National Geographic Magazine
Walden Pond
Rehersal
Circle I
Cherub
the Flickers
Sippi
Mississippi
Peiping
Des Moines
Religion and Race Commission
First Baptist
Congregational Church
North
WSCS
Pietas
Jesus Christ
Earth
Missouri — Synod
Ecumenical
Bennington Lions Club
Hanson-Walbridge Funeral Home
Hanson
Walbridge
Duneral Home
West Main Street
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