Bennington Area Churches Schedule Sunday Worship
A dense listing of church services across Bennington area towns including Bennington, Wilmington, North Bennington, Pownal, Arlington, and Manchester Center. Entries name denominations such as Episcopal, Catholic, Baptist, Congregational, Jehovahs Witnesses, and LDS, with service times and pastors or coordinators.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
OLD Stone Church
Independent Baptist
North Bennington
Edwin M. Ellis
Congregational Church
North Pownal
Jim Metcalf
North village church women study missions event
The North Bennington Baptist Church Women’s Fellowship met at Mrs. Bernard Whitman’s home with devotion led by Mrs. Mary Stearns. The program highlighted Home Mission Society projects, Evangelism, and refugee settlement efforts, and discussed church fairs and upcoming World Communion Day services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Women’s Fellowship
North Bennington Baptist Church
Bernard Whitman
Mary Stearns
Alfred Scott
Home Mission Society
Robert Peckham
United Methodist Church
Bennington
Bennington Baptist Fellowship
Baptist Church
North Bennington
BYF
Sacred concert planned at Shaftsbury First United Methodist Church
Shaftsbury hosts its 13th annual sacred variety concert at 7:30 p.m. Sunday featuring guest soloists and musicians from area churches under Mrs. Alvan Lawrence. Harpist Corky Christman of Duanesburg joins Vermont Symphony Orchestra members. other soloists include Joseph Stannard and Mrs. Kenneth Snyder with an augmented church senior choir. The program will include organ offertory and group numbers, with additional chorus and duets. A Church Women United session followed, led by Rev. Max Webster discussing Psalms for Our Day and hopes for next year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Angus J. MacDonald
First United Church In
Shaftsbury
Jane Armstrong
Rupert Young
Philip Elwell
William Flood
Leonard Stokes
First United Methodist
Alvan Lawrence
Holy Crosss Novitiate
Corky Christman
Duansburg
N.Y
Conservatory of Music
Schenectady
Joseph Stannard
St. Frances Cabrini
West Pawlet
Kenneth Snyder
First Baptist Church
Pownal
East Arlington
Armstrong
Young
Flood
David Bidwell
Mary Bishop
John Briggs
Ernest Harwood
Arthur Jones
Arthur Paulin
Joseph Pelle III
Ralph
Stokes
Oakley Frost
Robert Gibbs
Charles Mason
Kenneth Porter
Lawrence
Max Webster
Church Women United
First United Methodist Church
Paul DeConnick
LeRoy Marsden
Eugene Rosene
CWA
Eleanor Schaffer
James Merunowicz
Bishop Butterfield elected president of N E province
Springfield Mass The Rt Rev Harvey D Butterfield sixth bishop of Vermont was elected to a three year term as president of the Province of New England of the Episcopal Church at its 39th Annual Synod. Also elected were Canon Donald E Boyer secretary treasurer and Rt Rev Frederick B Wolf bishop of Maine vice president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Mass
Harvey D. Butterfield
S.T.D
Vermont
Province of
New England
The
Episcopal Church
Butterfield
Prinvnce I
House of Bishops
Donald E. Boyer
Frederick B. Wolf
Maine
St. Peter’s Church
Bennington
Churches to note Child Evangelism Sunday tomorrow
Vermont churches will observe National Child Evangelism Sunday. Gov. Deane Davis links delinquency to lack of Bible teaching and backs the Child Evangelism Fellowship program. Donald B. Coleman leads Vermont offices as Tom Hunt and his committee distribute over 1,400 bulletins for the observance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Windsor
Vermont
Donald B. Coleman
Child Evangelism Fellowship of
Deane Davis
Child Evangelism Fellowship
Tom Hunt
White River Junction
Migrants describe life at Bennington Church council meeting
Five of 32 Jamaican migrant workers at Southern Vermont Orchards shared views on their homeland and life in the United States at the Bennington Council of Churches gathering. They spoke of loneliness, the Vermont climate, and their relief at visits, with supervisor Leonard Black praising their work ethic and harmony. They recounted being treated poorly in other jobs, while council members planned steps to improve living and working conditions for current and future workers. The meeting also discussed constitution revisions and next-session logistics at Holy Cross Novitiate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vermont
Bennington
America
Leonard Black
Black
Dana Loomis
Angus J. MacDonald
Dana
Council
Holy Cross
Reba Moninger
Edwin Peterson
Richard D. Campbell
Reflections on a Return Visit to Pownal Community Church
A Vermont visitor notes a Sunday at Pownal Center Community Church amid drizzle and growing attendance. The organist, guest from another church, leads singing. a bright cross and autumn flowers frame a peaceful altar. Damaged windows have been replaced. funds from a late September rummage sale, about 80 dollars, support altar carpet replacement. The sermon stressed consideration for others and the writer hopes for integration as a visiting outsider.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pownal
Pownal Center
Vermont
Democrat vows salary raffle in Greene County race
Paul Longthon, a Democrat in a GOP heavy district, says if elected to the Greene County Legislature he will raffle off his $4,000 annual salary. He plans to choose three monthly winners from district residents. Other church news on Page 9.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Catskill, N.Y
UPI
Paul Longthon
Greene County
Also Mentioned on This Page
Sandgate
John Geer
Society OF Friends
Bennington Free Library
ST. Mary’s IN the Mountains
Wilmington
John C. Morris
West Arlington
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
Macecac
Svaaqivd
Kenneth Schwebel
J. Richard Sherlock
Church OF God
Leslie Wright
ST. Peter’s Episcopal Church
Kingdom Hall
Jehovah's Witnesses
Congregation
ST. James Episcopal Church
Arlington
Lawrence A. Sherwin
Zion Episcopal Church
Manchester Center
Robert L. Clayton
John Bryden
South Londonderry
First Church OF Christ Scientist
First Congregational Church
Manchester
Jerome J. Hevey Jr
Brahms
Pilgrim Fellowship
Vestry
Chancel
Seventh-Day Adventist Church
George C. Mills
Church OF Christ
West Rupert
Howard B. Ford Jr
ST. Margaret Mary Catholic Church
Gerald T. Buckley
East Dorset
Community Church
Douglas Weiss
Our Lady OF Fatima Catholic Church
Church OF Jesus Christ OF Latter Day Saints
Masonic Temple
United Methodist
David Hubbard
United Church
Dorset-East Rupert
Church
Hal C. Miller III
Redeemer Lutheran
Allen Barnes
St. Joseph College
Our Lady OR Lourdes Catholic Church
ST. Francis DE Sales Catholic
ST. John the Baptist Catholic Church
Missionary Alliance Church
Franklyn J. Klein Jr
Old Bennington
Church Barn
Arvel M. Steece
Christine Graham
J.S. Bach
Louis Calabro
ALL Faiths Chapel
Vermont Veterans Home
M. Everett Corbett
Second Congregational Church
Thomas D. Steffen
Christian Education Board
Ecumenical Center
North Village Church Women
Floyd I. la Bombard
Executive Board of Women’s Society
School of Religion
Federated Church
CWU
Cherub
Shaftsbury Church
Rev
Webster
Corky Cristman
Bishop Butterfield
N.E
Mcintosh
Carpenter
Bonanza
Jast
Ribi
Walker
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