"MissionPt" by artist Kathryn Barnes

Title: Mission Point

Artist: Kathryn Barnes

Media: Oils on Canvas

Mission Point lighthouse is on the shore of Lake Michigan, Traverse Bay area. It is a small church-like lighthouse, and has saved uncounted lives.

This lighthouse is

located at the tip

of the Traverse Bay

peninsula in Michigan.

It is named for the

missionaries that once

lived there.

This was a commissioned

artwork by a woman whose

son had once traveled to

that place intending to

commit suicide.

When he reached the end

of the bay at the place

where the land

points into Traverse Bay,

he saw the

lighthouse and his life

changed. He was filled

with hope and did not

kill himself.

Prayers linger on in

places where they are

earnestly said.