And where might you suppose this church is at?

Here's another church form the midwest.

It's famous among some circles. 

Have you ever heard of it?
It's the Little Brown Church in the Vale.

If you were an Evangelical at the turn of the prior century or even a Statler Brother fan this past century, you might have heard it's song.

Dolly Parton and Loretta Lynn have also recorded the song.

By the way, it is in central Iowa, in a towns called Nashuaa.


The story goes that the author rode to see his bride across a valley in Iowa back in the mid 1800's. 
He imagined a church in that valley which would be a beautiful spot for their wedding. 
So he wrote a song.

It became popular and a preacher built the church there. 
(Since it was during the Civil War, they had no white paint; so they settled for the brown they could get.)

The guy who wrote it sold the song to a publisher for $25 and with that went off to medical school in Chicago.

But the church still stands and people come form all around to get married in that church.

They say they've now had 100,000 weddings at this place.

So we stopped and snapped a pic of the inside.

Seems peculiar that so many would choose a church with 2 side aisles, and no central aisle for the bride to parade through. But, it is still extremely popular. Shows how much I know about those things.

Incidentally….although it is beautiful, I  have to admit, that if the sermons were long, I'd  be very likely to "commune with God" via the view out the window. 

Wouldn't you? 

(Maybe that is why Catholics priests like stained glass in their church windows.)