The Old First Church

The First Congregational Church of Bennington, Vermont

Christian Education

A dinner at the Barn.

A recent church dinner at the Barn after worship.

Besides Sunday morning worship, our monthly education program for all ages is called, "T.G.I. Wednesday." Usually the third Wednesday of each month, we begin at 6:00 with a pot-luck meal. People bring what they'd normally fix for dinner, or one simple dish to share, and silverware. We provide milk, decaf coffee, paper plates, and cups, so there are no dishes to wash after we eat. After dinner, our storyteller for the night dramatizes the story. Then we divide, the children in one room and the adults in another. Both groups discuss or do projects on the themes in the Biblical story. Then we come together at 7:20 for a brief closing worship.

Bible Study

An adult Bible study meets each Wednesday at the church Barn (next to the Bennington Battle Monument) from 8:00 to 9:00 a.m. Reading just a chapter or two a week, we have read from Genesis through 1 Kings, and are reading 2 Kings in the spring of 2008.

Women's Book Group

Our women's book group meets monthly in homes and reads mostly current and some classic works. Recent books have been The Woman at the Washington Zoo, The Year of Magical Thinking, Alias Grace, City of Falling Angels, My Life in France, Never Let Me Go, Garlic and Sapphires, and Digging to America. To see books read since the group's inception in 2003 and books to be read in 2008, visit the book group blog.


Church Council, Boards, and Committees

The Church Council:

Kiki Traver, Moderator
Robin Greene, Interim Pastor
Amy Kuzmicki, Clerk
Mark Donavan, Treasurer
Marsha Pilachowski, Chair of Deacons
Jon Traver, Chair of Trustees
Tony Conner, at large
Pat Guerrero, at large
Lisa Cappello, advocate for Christian Education
Jeanne Conner, advocate for Fellowship
Mike Briggs, advocate for Mission
Marietta Hibbard, advocate for Open Church

Board of Deacons:

Vickie Bugbee
Mark Cappello
Dorothy Conner
Bill Gordon
Marie Guariniello
Marsha Pilachowski *
Wendy Schmitt

Board of Trustees:

Roland Bugbee
Mark Donavan
Mike Foster
Dave Pilachowski
Tom Schmitt
Jon Traver *

Historian:

vacant

Assistant Treasurer:

Merritt Hewitt

Nominating Committee:

Jeanne Conner
TBD-Deacons
TBD-Trustees

Pastoral Relations Committee:

Tony Conner
Toby Potterton
Wendy Schmitt
Marsha Pilachowski, Chair of Deacons
Jon Traver, Chair of Trustees

* Chair

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