Say A Little Prayer - Hogsback

One of many churches in the Hogsback area in the Eastern Cape in South Africa

Say a prayer so I will find my former glory

The Hogsback Mountains and the mist, that often occurs in this region

An Artistic View Of The Vincent Methodist Church

A Water Color Impression - Mixed Media Art Print of the Vincent Methodist Church by Chocolat Negro

 

I often drive past this neat, white walled, small church building of the Vincent Methodist Church. But today I am showing you a slightly altered vision of the church.The above is a mixed medie watercolor impression of the church front.

Like in days of old- a church in Sepia- Mixed Media of the Vincent Methodist Church Entrance

What we call today "sepia" is something that happened non-intentional in the olden days  because the color tone of the picture would simply turn yellow and fade. Developer solutions were of a lesser quality.

The pastels of the South- the eyes of the Vincent Methodist Church

Colors like these you can see early in the morning sitting on the deck of a boat cruising the Zambezi. The pastels in the South are different. In the picture you can still see detail and the structure of the walls. There is still three-dimensionality.

The pastels are still there but now they are dominant factor in this image, conveying peace and tranquility.

The fire inside - A Pop Art Impression- the amazing tree on the lawn of the churches fellowship center

The tree and the church - they belong together.

Just the way it is!

One Is Your Master But You Are All Brothers

In a small German village of a thousand souls

called " Au at the Rhine"

build in stone - centuries old

 Matthew 23:8

But you are not to be called teacher, for you have one teacher, and you are all brothers.

Broken People Welcome

Will I THINK OF YOU?

Only when it's cold

Am I am shivering

Against the wind

And suddenly from the inside

The core of me

From my deepest depths

Comes

A small warming flame

Which wants to grow

And I fight it

Until I realize I need it

Want it

To flow through me

To fill me

Because

It is you

And then I will think of you

Leonard Nimoy's (MR. SPOCK)

Piece and serenity in the desert

This story is for my father who truly loves churches and has shown me so many over the years. Nieu Bethesda has many surprises and one of them is this old church.

And I know he would have loved to be there. When I visited Nieu Bethesda two years ago with my father the church was closed.

Standing proud and tall..... as we all should.

This time we were so lucky that the new guardian of the church is our friend. The key is approximately half a meter long.

And Doooog is really suffering at the moment......... he has been on his feet since early morning and was following us all day long through the village

The inside is serene and surprisingly spacious.

I think church windows have inspired artists and painters all over the world through all the centuries. This one has given me as a gift a new inspiration.

For the last trip. I think it has a lot of style actually. Not too shabby. I imagine four white horses...just for the contrast.

A place of beauty

Old cast iron chandeliers.

And a lot of other beautiful details.

like this old organ.

The look through the back door to the outside. Blazing sunlight and the impression this is a lost place.

The settlements on the other side of the village.

But opulence inside.