Precious Moment Chapel, Carthage, Missouri

During my return trip from Yellowstone National Park, I decided to drop by this place only because it was along the way. The Precious Moment Chapel turn out to be a very beautiful display of art and a place where you can find the meaning of peace, hope and love just by looking at the painting of Sam Butcher (Creator of Precious Moments Figurines). A must go if you ever visit the State of Missouri. For Christian, especially, you will find the story behind the chapel and the art work very religiously meaningful. For non Christian, I'm sure you will be captivated by the art work which I simply say very very Kawaii and innocent!

The center piece of this Chapel is the Hallelujah Sqaure, a wall mural that celebrated the live of real children but whose life were ended to soon. But they are in Heaven and their stories continue to bring love, hope and peace through this wall mural. The wall mural is an impressive art by Sam Butcher, his unique vision of how Heaven looks like, not only does it take alot of effort to create, its also progressive in nature. Any time the artist feels like adding a character here or there of just painting a few more objects, he will do so during his unannounced visit to the Chapel. Now it not only have children in it but also close friends and relative of Sam Butcher been drawn onto it. As an appreciation of the United States Military, the US Army, Air Force, Navy, Marines and Coast guard character are in there too!!!

Besides seeing the Chapel, there is a Precious Moment Museum show casing the history and the line of figurines since the first introduction, a small park and a gift shop to take home some figurines and souvenirs. Brought 2 Precious Moment Figurines and couple of post cards before I left that day.

I have created a Photo-blog this time round using Picasa2 from Google. Save me lots of time to individually upload the photos and typing each caption right here. Click on the photo collage below to view the Photo-blog for Precious Moment Chapel