![]() He fulfilled his lifelong dream, of reaching out to people with a message of God’s love, the Precious Moments Chapel. This brought Samuel to Carthage, where a house overlooking Center Creek near Carthage, was to be his future home. Now a renowned artist, he prayed in1984, for the Lord to lead him to a new home, where he could create a masterpiece for the Lord. “It is my prayer,” the artist said, “that through my work in the Chapel, I might share my faith with others, and that the Spirit of God might touch the visitors’ hearts, and bring them to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ, our Lord.” A struggling, young artist, Samuel created his first Precious Moments drawing in 1974, and the next year, Precious Moments was introduced to the public. It was to share the message of God’s love with the World, and as gratitude for God’s blessings in his life. The PRECIOUS MOMENTS CHAPEL was a stunning sight, that wasinspired by the Sistine Chapel in Rome, and located near Carthage, Missouri, in the scenic Ozarks of Southwest Missouri. In BRANSON, we enjoyed the Showboat Branson Belle, on Table Rock Lake Dolly Parton’s Dixie Stampede dinner theatre and show the Lawrence Welk Show, at the Champagne Theater the Bobby Vinton Show, with the Glenn Miller Orchestra the Shoji Tabuchi Show (the number one show in Branson) the Mel Tillis show the Mickey Gilley Show and the Jennifer Show. Nestled among the foothills of Arkansas, the entire city is on the National Register of Historic Places On the grounds of The Great Passion Play, depicting the final week and climax of Christ’s walk on earth, is the seven-story Christ of the Ozarks statue, the second largest statue of Christ in the world. In EUREKA SPRINGS, we took a narrated tour on an open-air tram, admiring the beautiful authentically restored Victorian homes and gingerbread cottages, lining the narrow and twisting roads. My husband Lloyd and I enjoyed a fully escorted twelve-day motor-coach excursion to Eureka Springs, Arkansas Branson, Missouri and The Precious Moments Chapel in Carthage, Missouri among other interesting places.
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