Bennington Area Churches Schedule Gatherings
A compact list of church services and activities across Bennington and surrounding towns. Details include worship times at First Church of God, Old Stone Church, United Methodist, Congregational, Church of Christ, St Mary’s, Zion Episcopal, and numerous others with pastors, Sunday School times, and midweek events. Also notes area ecumenical gatherings and harvest dinner in East Dorset.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Church OF Jesus Christ OF Latter Day Saints
Masonic Temple
Main St
East Dorset
Episcopalians Urged To Heal Polarizations In Vermont
The Vermont Episcopal Diocese counsels clergy and congregations to use Veterans Day and Vietnam War Moratorium days for calm dialogue. Bishop Butterfield urged rational prayerful engagement among 51 congregations to ease national and statewide polarization over the war. The Diocesan Council sent letters to Vermonters and to Congress via Fr. Russell Ellis, headmaster of Rock Point School, urging peace dialogue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rutland
Episcopal Church In
Vermont
Harvey D. Butterfield
Episcopal Diocese of
Vietnam
Rodlen Beye Lef
Brendan J. Whittaker
Brandon
Milwaukee pastor named executive secretary of national association
The Rev. John H. Alexander of Milwaukee has been named executive secretary of the National Association of Congregational Christian Churches, succeeding A. Vaugh Abercrombie. He has served in Maine Iowa Wisconsin and Chicago and will assume duties November 15 after a overseas mission supervisory trip. The association includes 308 churches and over 100000 members, with Old First Church Old Bennington and North Pownal represented locally.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John H. Alexander
Milwaukee
Wis
First Congregational Church
Old Bennington
North Pownal Congregational Church
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches
Alexander
Congregational Christian
Maine
Iowa
Wisconsin
Chicago
Association
Missionary Society, Building and Loan Fund
Youth and World Christian Relations Commissions
Arvel M. Steece
Old First Church
North Pownal
Film Examines Negro heritage in Manchester church
The Youth Fellowship of the First Baptist Church presents Heritage of the Negro, an adult film discussion on the civilizations and achievements of ancient Africa and their relevance to today’s American Negro. The program screens at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. in the church vestry, using art sculpture and pageantry to trace the past.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Baptist Church
Manchester Center
Joseph D. Huse
BYF
Manchester
The
Africa
Experimental Drama Program Is Success
Sunderland seventh and eighth graders presented an extemporaneous play The Generation Gap which they created and directed. An appreciative audience of parents and friends watched a fluid script, followed by a short skit, refreshments and dancing. Actors and authors included Terry Morse Laurel Secoy Margaret Secoy Brenda Lyons Gladys Colvin and Connie Sargood. William Morse of East Arlington teaches the grades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sunderland
Terry Morse
Laurel Secoy
Margaret Secoy
Brenda Lyons
Gladys Colvin
Connie Sargood
William Morse
East Arlington
Methodist Bishop To Address Communion Breakfast Sunday
Bishop Lloyd C Wicke of the New York Area will speak at a 7 30 a m communion breakfast at Mt Anthony Union High School dining room and deliver the sermon at the 9 45 service at First United Methodist Church. The event is part of four breakfasts sponsored by the Troy Conference Board of Evangelism for 76 Bennington Troy district churches. Rev Richard L Sears district evangelism secretary presides and others assist. The service will draw worshippers from distant points. Bishop Wicke, born May 22 1901 in Cleveland, Ohio, was ordained in 1926, consecrated bishop in 1946, led the Pittsburgh Area 195?–1960, then moved to New York Area in 1960. He and his wife Gertrude Allen of Waterville N Y live in Greenwich Conn. They have two children, Mrs F Robert Shoaf and Mrs Bruce S Cowan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester — Area
First Congregational Church
Lois Sundeen
Burlington
Vermont Conference of the United Church of Christ
At & P
Howard Stearns
Vermont Ecumenical Council
Lloyd C. Wicke
John G. Rhinesmith
Parlor
Circle II
Pilgrim Fellowship
Vermont
United Church of Christ
Christian Education
New York
United Methodist Church
Mt. Anthony Union High School
First United Methodist Church
The
Troy Conference Board of Evangelism
Benington - Troy
Richard L. Sears
Evangelism
Albany
Glens Falls
Bishop Wicke
Cleveland
Ohio
Episcopal
Pittsburgh
Gertrude Allen
Waterville
N.Y
Greenwich
Conn
Wickes
F. Robert Shoaf
Berkley Heights
N.J
Bruce S. Cowan
Fort Wayne
Ind
Forbearance urged in Christian service notes
In a Blended sermon and community column the piece urges forbearance as a Christian virtue amid social fault lines. It cites St Paul, President Nixon, and modern judgments, urging patience, forgiveness, and non condemnation across racial and generational divides. It reports church events in Shaftsbury and Petersburg with programs by Uncle Bill Salisbury at local Baptist churches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Paul
America
Pownal
Bill Salisbury
Baptist Church
Petersburg
N.Y
Also Mentioned on This Page
Bennington
Society OF Friends
Quakers
Faith Bible Baptist Church
Woodford Hollow
Kenneth Schwebel
Congregational Church
Church
Leonard Perrault
First Church OF God
W. Earle Forman
OLD Stone Church
Independent Baptist
North Bennington
Elwin M. Ellis
Wilmington
Henry A. Peck
Our Lady OF Fatima
Church OF Christ West
David Hubbard
Methodist Church
Sandgate
John E. Geer
West Arlington
First Church OF Christ Scientist
Adam
Man
Peter
Congregational Church East
Dorset
Lester Tufts
Zion Episcopal
Robert L. Clayton
Daughters of Zion
Robert Burgoyne
Church OF Christ
Jerry Moffitt
Cheyenne
Wyo
UPI
Seventh-Day Adventist Church
George C. Mills
United Church
Dorset - East Rupert
Hal C. Miller
Kingdom Hall
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Watch Tower
Congregational Bible Study
ST. Mary’s IN the Mountains
Russell Gale
ST. Francis DE Sales Catholic Church
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
ST. John the Baptist Catholic Church
Second Congregational Church
Board of Christian Education
Women’s Fellowship
Board of Lay Life and Work
Federated Church East
Arlington
Missionary Alliance Church
Richard Lenehan
Jesus
Alfred Scott
Edith Burns
Joseph Hall
ST. Peter’s Episcopal Church
Roy Green
Young People’s Fellowship
ST. James Episcopal Church
C. G. Belcher
First United Methodist
CHURC
Unitarian Fellowship
Gordon Gerrish
Bennington Free Library
H. Glenn Payne
Woman’s Society
Church Barn
Jerome Campbell
Handel
Faure
Church Cabinet
Barn
First United Methodist Church ‘Shattsmary
Father
WSCS
Episcopalians
Russell R. Ellis
Tion
Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Ellis
Rock Point
Council
Congregational Association
A. Vaugh Abercrombie
Missionary Society
Artery Arcade
North Adams
First National Stores
North Bennington Road
Bennington, Vermont
del Monte
Bradford House
Grants Bradford House
Monument Plaza Shopping Ctr
Walker
Jersey City
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Bishop Lloyd C. Wicke
Shaftsbury
Women’s Society of Christian Service
Russell Mack
Francis Peters
Eugene Kosche
Nixon
Ventriloquist
Tami
Tfi
Monument Plaza Shopping Center
Advertising Council
Religion In American Life
International Newspaper Advertising Executives
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