Historical September 1983 report or notice. Original dates, prices and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
Two years ago the front door at Grace and Peace Fellowship fell off its hinges.
The Art’s Ministry responded by seeing this as an opportunity for the Fellowship’s artists to design a new door for the church.
From an exhibition at the Church in July 1981, artist/woodworker Lon Kaufmann’s design was selected. Installed at the Grace and Peace building at 6003 Kingsbury is the finished product, made by Mr. Kaufmann and artist/painter John Bjerklie.
The door, titled “The Door of Mercy,” is made of various woods, including maple, padouk, purpleheart and aromatic cedar.
The imagery of “The Door of Mercy” is inspired from various biblical sources symbolizing, for example, the relationships between the purpleheart wood and the purple veil of Solomon’s Temple (found in the Old Testament) and the red padouk wood relating to the blood of the Passover lamb (also from the Old Testament).
The door was designed to relate to the keystone over the doorway which, for the church members, represents Jesus Christ, and ties together all of the symbols in the door.
The door is a gift from the artists and the Art’s Ministry to Grace and Peace Fellowship.
It is hoped that the door will enrich not only the lives of Grace and Peace members who will pass through the door regularly but all the people of Skinker-DeBaliviere who will pass by each day.
The door is an expression of the artists and of the people of Grace and Peace in that it represents the hopes past, present and future of the Fellowship to be sensitively and actively present, according to its values as Christians, in the Skinker-DeBaliviere neighborhood.
Original photograph caption
“The Door of Mercy” at Grace and Peace Fellowship, 6003 Kingsbury. Original photograph, The Paper, September 1983, page 6. Photographer not credited.
Originally published in The Paper, September 1983.
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