Beautiful Chapel

I have wanted to visit this chapel for 15 years and finally visited it on June 7, 2013. When we first moved to Fort Worth TX, I saw a beautiful... more

by Joan Carroll

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12.000 x 18.000 inches

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Beautiful Chapel

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Joan Carroll

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I have wanted to visit this chapel for 15 years and finally visited it on June 7, 2013. When we first moved to Fort Worth TX, I saw a beautiful chapel sitting up high on a hill across a beautiful meadow. Soon construction began that destroyed the meadow and converted it to a shopping center. But the chapel was still there on top of the hill. It is the Marty Leonard Chapel at the Lena Pope Home. More than 80 years ago, Lena Pope began providing a hope for orphaned children in North Texas. Since its founding in 1930, the programs offered by Lena Pope Home have evolved to meet the changing needs of the community by focusing today on creating hope, happiness and success for children and families through counseling and education. The Marty Leonard Community Chapel was constructed on grounds of Lena Pope Home beginning in the spring of 1989. The construction of the Marty Leonard Community Chapel was heavily influenced by the actions of its namesake. Marty Leonard has been a leading advocate and loyal supporter of Lena Pope Home for numerous years. In gratitude for her instrumental efforts, Marty's friends and family surprised her on her 50th birthday with the rendering of the chapel and partial funds for its construction. Building a chapel on Lena Pope Home's property had been a dream of Marty's for years. Fundraising for the chapel began in the 1980s, and over 300 donors contributed to realizing her dream. Commissioning architect E. Fay Jones was a natural choice. Jones described his Chapel design as an "instrument for nature's music as light and shadows move and change throughout the day." The interior of the Chapel inspires and fulfills the goal of Jones' design - that visitors will "think their loftiest and best thoughts." When I finally visited for the first time, that is exactly what I saw: nature's music as light and shadow.

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September 17th, 2013