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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1973
Page
3
Several congregations list Sunday worship times with pastors and ministers. Bennington area churches include Bennington Area and Church of God Chapel Road with Sunday School at 10 a.m. and worship at 11:15 a.m. through Rev Kenneth Schwebel and Leslie Wright respectively.
Constitution Week activities feature 11 a.m. Sunday worship at the First Congregational Church in Old Bennington with sermon The Constitutional Crisis by Rev. Dr. Arvel M. Steece. DAR and Girl Scout groups invited. nursery provided. church schools for all ages.
The Bennington Council of Church Women United launched a six session study at St. Peter's Episcopal Church led by Mrs Wendell Potter. Devotions by Mrs Olaf Bard and a coffee reception followed. Potter urged churches to be active community liaisons and to improve listening to meet local needs.
The Executive Committee of the Bennington Area Ecumenical Council of Churches will meet at noon Wednesday in the parlor of the First United Methodist Church. Members should bring lunch and stay for a talk by Rev. Ruth Powell of Townshend next Tuesday. All area women are invited. a nursery will be provided throughout the series.
Hoosick N Y—A community hymn sing hosted by the Hoosick Area Church Association will be at First Baptist Church Sunday at 7 30 p m The September association meeting is set for Tuesday at Hoosick Falls First Baptist Church Also listed are Mass times and church activities for St James St Margaret Mary Church of Christ United Methodist Zion Episcopal and other local congregations with services baptisms and Holy Communion details.
Church notices list 11 am worship and Sunday School, readings from Hebrews, communion and prayers, and multiple midweek meetings. Activities include vestry, choir rehearsals, youth and women groups, ecumenical council events, and sermons by named pastors with dates and locations across Manchester East Dorset and Vermont Veterans Home.
Msgr Charles J Marcoux formerly of Bennington and pastor at St. Francis Xavier Parish in Winooski is named full time Episcopal vicar by Bishop Marshall. Rev Paul E Bouffard will replace him in Winooski as assistant. The role grows from Vatican II.
The Woodford Community Church, closed for years, will reopen for nondenominational services this Sunday at 2 30 p m with Rev Louis A Cook of North Adams Mass named pastor He is an American Divinity graduate and a member of the American Evangelical Christian Church which ordained him in December 1956 He earned a Th D in July 1960 and a bachelor of theology in January 1961. He has served as supervisor for
Zion Episcopal Church will host the fall Church World Service clothing drive on Friday October 5 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Area churches and individuals may deliver specific targeted items including fabric and sewing kits, school kits, health kits, soap kits, layettes, blankets, and men's clothing. women’s clothing is not needed. Monetary gifts include $3 for a blanket and 10 cents per pound for shipping costs.
Shaftsbury The United Methodist Women held their fall meeting in the church social room with a covered dish supper. Highlights included the Troy Conference Summer Learning Fellowship at Green Mountain College Putney and a recent UMW Workshop in Rutland. Plans for a chicken pie supper on Oct. 6 were approved and 100 hymnals plus 10 as memorials were authorized for purchase.
The Rev. David J. Bort his wife and family will attend a reception after the 10 30 a m service Sunday at United Methodist Church West Arlington He has served part time since late June while on sabbatical from the Northern New Jersey Conference He is a native of Sault Sainte Marie Michigan and studied at Cornell College and Drew University with degrees in divinity and arts.
Clarence Barrows announces a two day Jehovahs Witnesses convention at Riverside Park Junior High School Springfield. more than 1200 delegates from Vermont and New York expected with sessions Bible talks demonstrations baptism Sunday morning and a keynote by Frank R Bartell. Bartell is a church leader writer and editor with ties to Drew University The Great Brendini the magician will also perform.
The Rev. George W. Pendlebury of 126 Fillmore St Bennington has been licensed as an ordained minister by the Southern Evangelist Association. He plans a church at 151 Lancaster St Albany and will hold a Bennington revival October 5 to 20 with the theme If you have not got right with God do then. He invites Rev. Elwin Ellis of the Old Stone Church in North Bennington to assist and urges area residents to come get saved.
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