Bennington Area Church Events and Services
Area church listings for Bennington and surrounding towns include Holy Communion and Morning Prayer at Zion Episcopal Manchester Center with sermons by Rev. Robert L. Clayton and a busy schedule of Sunday School and youth activities. Other notices cover St Peter's Episcopal Arlington services, First Methodist Church events in Shaftsbury, and multiple denominational observations across Pownal Center, Bennington, and nearby communities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zion Episcopal Church
Manchester Center
Robert L. Clayton
Church School
Unicef
All Saints’ Day
Community Church
Pownal Center
Elwin M. Ellis
First Church OF God
Jesus
W. Earle Forman
ST. James Episcopal Church
Arlington
C. G. Belcher
Congregational Church
North Bennington
William Abernethy
Wickendens
Lutherans Reconsider Reformation Milestone
About 9,000,000 worshippers in 17,000 U.S. Lutheran churches will share uniform scriptures psalms and hymns this Sunday with sermons urging reconciliation. The observance marks 450 years since Luther's 95 theses and notes improving Lutheran Catholic relations through private and public dialogues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Louis, Mo
UPI
U.S
Martin Luther
Castle Church
Wittenberg
Germany
Dale E. Griffin
St. Louis
Griffin
Luther
Mormon Memorial brochure and Episcopal Eucharist trial
A color brochure depicts the Joseph Smith Memorial near Sharon. The Episcopal Church plans a local trial of a new liturgy for the Eucharist on All Saints Day with services at St. Peter's Church and a festival Eucharist sung by the senior choir. Holy Cross Novitiate members will attend and a supper follows. The Rev. Frederick B. Wolf notes the liturgy's flexibility and updated language. Copies are available at the GBA office. The memorial attracts visitors from across the United States and abroad, with informal guided tours and descriptive brochure photos.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Episcopal Church
St. Peter’s Church
Holy Cross Novitiate
Donald Jolivette
Frederick B. Wolf
Seattle
Wash
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Mormons
GBA
South Street
The
Mormon Church
Church
United States
Sharon
Union
Williams College seeks actress for The Knack audition
Adams Memorial Theatre invites local women ages late teens to late 20s to audition for Nancy in The Knack by Ann Jellicoe. Auditions set Sunday 2 00 to 4 00 p m and Monday 7 30 to 10 00 p m in the AMT library. No experience required.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Williamstown
Mass
Adams Memorial Theatre
Williams College
Nancy
Knack
Ann Jellicoe
AMT
New 95 Theses Protest Against Secular Christianity
Washington D C A young Lutheran theologian issues 95 theses protesting secular Christianity and modern morality mirroring Luther's 1517 act. Dr John Warwick Montgomery notes indulgences diverted men from repentance, drawing a parallel between the Reformation era and mid-twentieth century church practice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D.C
Martin Luther
John Warwick Montgomery
Luther
Episcopalians Hear Reports On Vermont Convention
Bennington County Episcopalians plan a supper meeting at St Peter’s Church on November 7 at 6 30 p m to hear Bishop Harvey Butterfield Judge Ernest Gibson Mrs Pardon Tillinghast and Rev Robert L Clayton report on the 82nd General Convention held in Seattle September 17 27 The reports focus on the convention’s impact on Vermont diocese Miss Elise Phillips chairs arrangements and a filmstrip Seattle Summary will be shown, first shown in Rutland October 23. The event includes discussion of secular theology and social action in church life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington County
Episcopal Diocese of
Vermont
Elise Phillips
Arlington
Rutland
Church Women of the
Marion Hardy
Bennington
St. Peter’s
Phillips
St. James
William Nawrath
Zion
Manchester
St. Mary’s
Wilmington
Seattle
Episcopal Church
Department of Communication
Festival service marks Protestant Reformation anniversary
First Congregational Church Bennington hosts a 4 p.m. Sunday festival service in its meetinghouse with Rev. Roland H. Bainton as guest speaker on Deformation and Reformation. Ministers from local churches participate and a festival choir from First Baptist and First Methodist will sing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Church Barn
Arvel M. Steece
John Mason
Roland H. Bainton
Ladies Aid Society
First Congregational Church
Old Bennington
Titus Street
Divinity School
Yale University
Bainton
First Baptist
Bennington
Vermont
Shaftsbury Church Hosts World Community Day Program
Shaftsbury Methodist Church will host World Community Day with a 12:45 luncheon and a 2 p.m. program featuring John Roth Rock of the Bennington Free Library discussing A Mortal Challenge and his view on South Africa. Churches are asked to bring layettes Asian children’s clothing and gift certificates, plus Christmas gifts for Waterbury State Hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alvan Lawrence
F. G. Rathbun
Gordon Young
C. S. Mallard
Shaftsbury Church
Shaftsbury Methodist Church
John Rothrock
Bennington Free
South Africa
Waterbury State Hospital
Youth Interfaith Gathering Invited at St Pauls Church
Youth groups from local churches are invited to join an Inter faith Youth Gathering at 7 p.m. Monday at St. Pauls Roman Catholic Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester
St. Paul’s Roman Catholic
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Hotel Putnam
Seventh-Day Adventist Church
Shaftsbury
First Methodist Church
Ernest Gratz
Edward Armstrong
William Allen
John Millington
Elmer Benn
Ralph Burgess
Luella Wilson
Louise McDonald
Stella Hawkins
Eleanor Lawrence
Twe Financial
Gratz
Armstrong
Millington
Laura Montgomery
McDonald
Eugene Kosche
Marshall Lyons
Virginia Dooley
Andrew Mattison
Abel Harrington
Phyllis Gates
Howard Stevens
Carl Farnham
Emma Hoyt
Arthur Howard
Kenneth Cornell
Vietnam
Melvin R. McGaughey
Beethoven
White Chapel
Boy Scout
Explorer
ST. Peter’s Episcopal Church
Jerome J. Hevey
Pilgrim Fellowship Pilgrim Fellowship
F.P. Montgomery
Vermont Soldiers Home
Unitarian-Universalist
Bennington Unitarian Fellowship
Alfred S. Cole
Bennington Free Library
First Baptist Church
H. Glenn Payne
Central Vermont
Missionary Alliance Church
Richard Lenehan
God
Jeremiah
Baptist Church
Alfred Scott
OLD Stone Church
Independent Baptist
Faith Bible Baptist Church
Woodford Hollow
Kenneth Schwebel
Second Congregational Church
Thomas D. Steffen
Athenagoras
Paul
St. Peter’s Basilica
Vatican
Christendom
Walker
Dacron & Cottons
Adams Clothes Shop
Mormon Memorial
Joseph Smith
Episcopalians
Montgomery
Dachau
America
Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
Deerfield
Ill
University of Strasbourg
France
Christ
Third Reich
Kayser
Drysdale’s
Armory Lot
Pik
Rhe
Longhorn
Haynes
Kane, Inc
Main ST
Dial
Nichols
Seton
By Margolin
Expresso
Hanson
Walbridge
National
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