A Little Country Church

This weekend, while finding our way to the lake over the back roads, we came across this beautifully kept up church. The next evening, while driving home from the lake, it was about 7:30- the Golden Hour here. And I had to stop and take some shots.

The inside. It’s actually set up pretty modern. Apparently they occasionally have weddings and funerals there. Up there in the front right-hand corner the preservation committee had hung various pictures and newspaper clippings including the church from down through the years.

We managed to stumble across this place on the exact same weekend as the local centennial celebration, so there were a lot of recent entries in the guestbook, and at the front gate we actually met the lady who is the last surviving member of the committee who took it upon themselves to keep this rock of the community from rotting away.

I’m a bit of a history fiend and absolutely love capturing old buildings, particularly churches. And I can only imagine what an incredible location this would make for a bridal session.

This is truly a little country church- you can see in the distance, behind my watermark, the bins and the farmstead. And, in my mind, this church, while it may not have a congregation that meets in it regularly anymore, is still a monument to the God and the people who built this country strong.