Club Aery serves similar purposes and helps plan school-wide events.

Your aery buildeth in our aery's nest.

Know the gallant monarch is in arms And like an eagle o'er his aery tow'rs To souse annoyance that comes near his nest.

Those fears came to the forefront in 1988 when Shalia Aery, commissioner of higher education under Governor John Ashcroft, announced a plan to close the school.

The Mount Aery Baptist Church Massed Choir sang "Ain't That Good News."

In Bridgeport, Mr. Streets, at the age of 25, became pastor of Mount Aery, one of the city's oldest black Baptist churches.

In 1988 Shalia Aery, commissioner of higher education under Governor John Ashcroft recommended Northwest should close and leave Missouri Western as the surviving school.

As a result of a visit by the Maryland State Secretary of Higher Education, Dr. Shaila Aery, the college began to take steps towards becoming independent.

An additional performance will be given on Dec. 21 at 4 P.M. in the Mount Aery Baptist Church on Frank Street in Bridgeport.

Knipe is the founder of The New York Dramadies Company and the Artistic Director of The Aery Theatre Company.

GLOUCESTER Yea, and much more: but I was born so high, Our aery buildeth in the cedar's top, And dallies with the wind and scorns the sun.

"We can understand and our congregation would have perspective on the issue of enslavement," said Anthony Bennett, pastor of Mount Aery Baptist Church in Bridgeport and a sponsor of the event.

The Rev. Thomas Ogletree, dean of Yale Divinity School, visited Mount Aery in 1991, when the church was playing host to one of his former students, the Rev. Jesse Jackson.

"I knew Jerry was teaching more than half-time at the divinity school, and part-time at Hartford Theological Seminary, so he could not spend more than a third of his time at Mount Aery.

Going Beyond Tradition Mr. Streets, 42 years old, is the pastor of the Mount Aery Baptist Church in Bridgeport and an adjunct professor of pastoral theology at the Yale Divinity School.

And Mr. Lieberman showed up at the Mount Aery Church in the downtown section of Bridgeport, and repeated his assertion that Mr. Weicker, as a maverick in the Senate, served only his own agenda.

Mr. Streets has been breaking ground in urban ministry since he graduated from Yale Divinity School in 1975, said Mr. Schmidt, who called Mount Aery "one of the most vital urban congregations in the Northeast."

Seven years later Mount Aery moved into a new, $1.2 million building; it, too, developed a housing program and day-care center, became home to a Head Start program, and founded the first AIDS outreach service in Fairfield County.

THE REV. ANTHONY BENNETT of Mount Aery Baptist Church in Bridgeport was wary when the Healthcare Employees Union asked to speak to him last year.