Area Church Notices Readings and services across Vermont towns
A consolidated church notices page lists worship services, sermons, Sunday school and nursery hours, and various church activities across multiple congregations including Federated Church East Arlington Congregational Church North Bennington Vermont Veterans Home All Faiths Chapel Community Church Pownal Center Wilmington Rupert Manchester Second Congregational Church United Methodist Church Old Stone Church Kingdom Hall Sacred Heart Our Lady of Lourdes East Dorset St Peter's Episcopal First Congregational Old Bennington First United Methodist Shaftsbury Redeemer Lutheran Church Bennington.
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Old Stone Church
Independent Baptist
North Bennington
Edwin M. Ellis
Redeemer Lutheran Church
Allen Barnes
Redeemer Lutheran
Second Congregational Church
Hillside Street
Bennington
Bible reading course planned by Old First Church
Old First Church in Old Bennington launches a nine month Bible reading plan covering both Testaments with flexible daily readings and weekly study sessions. The program costs 5 dollars for the Old Testament portion and 8 dollars for the full course. Sessions include adult Sunday meetings at 9 30 and Wednesday study in the church barn at 7 30.
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Old First Church
Old Bennington
Church Barn
Church School
Tennessee Supreme Court bans snake handling in church
The Tennessee Supreme Court ruled 5-0 that public snake handling and drinking poison during religious ceremonies are a public nuisance. The decision, written by Justice Joe Henry, preserves religious belief but allows regulation of actions to protect state interests.
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Nashville, Tenn
UPI
Holiness Church
Tennessee Supreme Court
Joe Henry
Tennessee
Liston Pack
the Holiness
Church of God In Jesus Name
Henry F. Swann
Pack
East
Tennessee Mountains
Newport
Supreme Court
State of
UMW and Church Groups Report Fall Meetings and Funds
Shaftsbury First United Methodist Church hosts the fall meeting with Mrs. Alvan Lawrence outlining the 1975 Troy Conference Summer Learning Fellowship. Budget for 1976 approved. events scheduled include chicken pie supper Oct 11 and Christmas Bazaar Dec 6. A Fall Learning Fellowship Series begins with five sessions at St. Peter's Episcopal, Bennington, on Vermont's journey toward wholeness. In Burlington, the Bishop's Fund for Charities and Development nears 575,000 dollars as donations rise. Bennington and Troy districts meet later in October with theme Building Bridges and a talk on The Trio of Love. Nearby Montpelier hosts the Vermont Fellowship of Women annual meeting at Bethany UCC with speaker Janet Craw on What Does the Lord Require, followed by Back Bay Mission offerings and a noon bag lunch. The Sodality at St. John's North Bennington delays its meeting while Yvonne Lampton leads a fundraising social.
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Shaftsbury
United Methodist Women
First United Methodist Church
Alvan Lawrence
Troy
Virginia Dooley
Green Mountain College
Poultney
Robert Gratz
UMW
Florence Mackey
Rose Hulett
St. Peter’s Episcopal Church
Bennington
Vermont
First Baptist Church
Church World Service
Bennington - Troy
Calvary Methodist Church
Latham
N.Y
Eugene Kosche
Ranney Galusha
Montpelier
Vermont Fellowship of Women
Department of Church and Ministry
Vermont Conference of the United Church of Christ
Bethany United Church of Christ
Margaret Robinson
South Hero
Janet Craw
Acworth, N.H
United Church of Christ
Connecticut
Division of Christian Education
John Nutting
Back Bay
Council of Churches weighs refugee sponsorship in Bennington
The Bennington Area Ecumenical Council of Churches executive committee discussed sponsoring a Vietnamese family with Catholic Charities Burlington and considered a letter to churches seeking financial support. The group noted employment and housing as top needs and eyed underused parsonages for potential use. Jamaican apple pickers were welcomed at First Baptist with plans for weekly activities during their six week stay, and local clergy will assess church participation at upcoming meetings.
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Council
Catholic Charities
Burlington
Bennington
Haugh
Rutland
Riddle
Council of Churches
Vogell
North Pownal
Hourihan
First Baptist Church
John Arnett
St. Francis de Sales
John Riddle
Angus MacDonald
Vermont
St. Peter’s Church
North Bennington Baptist Church
Fluorescent Lighting Cuts Home Energy Costs
College Station, Tex. housing expert Jane Berry notes modern fluorescent lighting boosts efficiency. She cites tests in a model home showing a 45 percent reduction in electricity costs when using efficient fluorescent lamps instead of incandescent lighting.
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College Station, Tex
UPI
Jane Berry
Church Women United holds first Fall Learning Fellowship in Vermont
The event at St. Peter's Episcopal Church on September 9 featured Mrs. Max Webster recounting the group's roots from 1887 with missionaries forming prayer groups, tracing World Day of Prayer origins in 1927, and the 1940s creation of World Community Day and May Fellowship Day. Recognition was given to former Bennington Council presidents. James P. Henry resumes Sept 16 with a talk on Community Work Activities Center.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Church Women
St. Peter’s Episcopal Church
Max Webster
Vermont
National Council
Mary Jean Simpson
UVM
Church Women United
Webster
Bennington Council
Zdenek Bednar
Harry Hayden
Alvin Lawrence
Shaftsbury
James P. Henry
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Area Church Notices
Federated Church East
St. James Episcopal Church
Arlington
First Church of Christ, Scientist
Congregational Church
Matthew Broadbent
All Faiths Chapel
Vermont Veterans Home
M. Everett Corbett
Zion Episcopal Church
Robert L. Clayton
the Community Church
Pownal Center
Jesus
Philip
Richard D. Campbell
Circle Iti
John Kimball
Elm St
Circle I
Circle IV
Hildred Straub
Wilmington
John P. R. Morgan
Rupert
Missionary Alliance Church
Dennis Dodge
Women’s Missionary Prayer
First Congregational Church
Manchester
Reevey
Mendelssohn
United Women’s Fellowship
Vestry
Saul Paul
Wayne Dalton
Second Congregational
Ecclesiastical Council
Michael Ader
Baptist Church
Pownal
Kenneth Schwebel
Church of Christ
United Methodist Church
David Hubbard
Kingdom Hall
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Congregation
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
St. Francis de Sales Catholic
St. John the Baptist Catholic Church
Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church
East Dorset
St&. Peter’s Episcopal Church
Kenneth W. Costin
Arvel M. Steece
A.J. MacDonald
Lani Smith
Old First
Sunderland Union Church
Sunderland
Edward Clark
West Arlington
David Bort
Church of Christ West
Society of Friends
Quakers
Bennington Free Library
Methodist Church
Sandgate
Paul Klose
Osborne Gaines
Woman’s Society
Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church
St. Mary’s In the Mountains
John C. Morris
United Church
Dorset-East Rupert
Church
Hal C. Miller III
St. Margaret Mary Catholic Church
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Mormons
McCullough Library
Sacrament
Howard Fish
Madkour’s
Main ST
Monthru
Bishop’s Fund
Msgr
Paul M. Bresnehan
Bresnehan
St. John’s Church
Yvonne Lampton
Mother Elizabeth Seton
Joseph Dawley
Rome
St. Peter’s Square
Paul VI
Vatican Museum
Harriet Davis
Bennington Area
ROC
Servicemaster Academy OF Service
P.E.M
P.O
Bennington, VT
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