Country Churches: Kress UMC

Kress, Texas

Country Churches: Tularosa Church of the Nazarene

Country Churches: First Baptist, Carrizozo, New Mexico

Country Churches: First Spanish Baptist

Tucumcari, New Mexico

Country Churches: Bippus

Bippus, Texas

Ghost Town Roundup: Yeso, New Mexico

Yeso is entirely abandoned, but their are folks nearby who'll probably stop by to see
what you're up to, but if you're not up to anything, you'll be just fine.

Ima Church Community Center

Ima, New Mexico

Country Churches: Saint Anne's, Tucumcari

New Mexico's many historic churches draw thousands of visitors

Sacred Heart, Dilia, NM (Sixgun Siding)

(Albuquerque Journal) ... For some visitors to the Land of Enchantment, churches and cathedrals are a big draw. And for some, churches are the reason New Mexico is their destination. Continued

Our Lady of Guadalupe

Painting at
Our Lady of Guadalupe
RC Church, Clovis, NM

(Wikipedia) Our Lady of Guadalupe (Spanish: Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe), also known as the Virgin of Guadalupe (Spanish: Virgen de Guadalupe), is a Roman Catholic title of the Blessed Virgin Mary associated with a venerated image enshrined within the Minor Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City. The basilica is the most visited Catholic pilgrimage site in the world, and the world's third most-visited sacred site. Pope Leo XIII granted the venerated image a Canonical Coronation on 12 October 1895.
Official Catholic accounts state that the Virgin Mary appeared four times before Juan Diego and one more before Juan Diego's uncle. According to these accounts the first apparition occurred on the morning of December 9, 1531, when a native Mexican peasant named Juan Diego saw a vision of a maiden at a place called the Hill of Tepeyac, which would become part of Villa de Guadalupe, a suburb of Mexico City. Speaking to Juan Diego in his native Nahuatl language (the language of the Aztec empire), the maiden identified herself as the Virgin Mary, "mother of the very true deity" and asked for a church to be built at that site in her honor. Continued

Country Churches: Nuestra Senora del Refugio

Puerto de Luna, New Mexico

Country Churches: Saint Inez

Santa Inez, Puerto de Luna, New Mexico

First Bloys Camp Meeting held in Big Bend region

 

(Texas Day by Day) On this day in 1890, forty-three people gathered under a brush arbor in the Davis Mountains for the first Bloys Camp Meeting, a multi-day religious service intended to bring together pioneer ranching families that could not regularly worship alongside their neighbors in the vast, sparsely populated region. Continued

Country Church, or not

This may have been a church, or maybe it was a school, or maybe both. I do know it's in Grenville, New Mexico.

Country Churches: Church of Christ, Des Moines, New Mexico

Yes, there really is a Des Moines, New Mexico, it's not far from Boise (City), Oklahoma. The exterior of the church is covered in a stucco application known as Formstone, which was very popular on the east coast in the decades right before and after World War Two. The preservation of Formstone buildings is a hotly debated topic.

Country Churches: San Jon United Methodist

Country Churches: Milnesand Baptist

Milnesand, New Mexico

Country Churches: Causey Baptist

The bench behind the church

Country Churches: Arch, New Mexico