It's a small branch in Talladega, but very friendly and welcoming! I really enjoyed it.
We then headed out to Rome. Rome, Georgia, that is. We love to participate in Messiah Sing-a-longs each year and we brought our two music scores with us.
We decided to leave straight from church and pack a picnic lunch. We could have gone home first, but that felt like it was pushing it time-wise. As a result, we were pulling into town an hour early and were about to go see a college campus before the sing in when I noticed--I hadn't remembered we crossed time-zones! Thankfully my phone's clock did! It was an hour later than anticipated--the sing in started in 2 minutes!! Yikes! We drove straight there and arrived just as the overture was playing. Whew! We felt so grateful how things came together for us to participate.
This one was at a United Methodist church. It was gorgeous! And the singing and music was fantastic!!! We loved it SO much!
View from the balcony
The wood-panel ceiling, the windows, and the organ created a lovely atmosphere.
We also met some of the people sitting near us who were SO very friendly. The southern hospitality culture is a lovely thing!
This was a nativity there. Note master yoda also present! They are true to the sign placed there!
Next we did go over to see Berry College. All I can say is, Georgia is beautiful! It turns out Berry is the largest geographical campus not only in the nation, but in the world! It's 27,000 acres! With a student body of 1,978, each student can claim his or her own 13 acres! For context we looked up the size of the campus we know best: BYU. 557 acres. Berry is almost 50 TIMES bigger than BYU! With a student body of over 33k, each BYU student gets less than two hundreths of an acre. Let's just say, they're a bit different. 😂
There is a main campus and a mountain campus and a few mile drive between the two.
Beautiful stand of trees on the main campus.
Beautiful nature abounds here.
A long winding path up to the church. This is zoomed in a good bit too.
The nature reserve between the lower and mountain campuses.
One of the campus buildings
Another campus building
There's a museum nearby about the founder, Martha Berry. If we were to make it back to Rome, we'd love to go through it. In short, Martha inherited a lot of land and later obtained more. She started an elementary school and a middle school which still exist and are in operation on Berry campus.
I don't know what the culture is like here, but we certainly enjoyed our drive around. Admittedly, kids weren't as interested in this part.
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