White's Chapel is a very large United Methodist church, the only one in Southlake. It's too big for me, and I have some problems with how they spend their money, but the Founder's Chapel…oh, the Founder's Chapel!
Small, simple. Beautiful. Talented and dedicated musicians, faithful lay leaders, readers and ushers, a small but above average congregation. (Okay, the pastor joked about it today, relating this: the lovely woman who leads the singing asked him if he wanted to review the service before it began. He said, "Well, is there something extraordinary about it?" She said, "Besides me? No." He had to agree with her that she is, and then went on to tell us that the Founder's Chapel is White's Chapel's Lake Wobegon.) We take communion every week, they ring an actual church bell at the beginning and end of the service. Plus we're outta there by 10:30am!
We have a different associate pastor preaching each month, and they cancel our service anytime there's anything else going on. But it's a fine, personal, get-down-to-basics service. (And at White's Chapel, where everything tends to be an extravaganza, that's doing something.)
So I'm thankful that I found it. And that might be me sitting on the right side in the photo…:)
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