04 East – The Ship
Elma Wright Day – Donor
The ship that is the salvation of Christ is an interpretative representation in this panel representing the blue ocean and white foam of waves against a solid white section surrounded by brown, the earthen color of base, of the “nave,” the safe community of the church. This, of course, hearkens back to the Ark, and to the boat of Peter on the sea of Galilee where Jesus tamed the storm.
And when he got into the boat, his disciples followed him. A windstorm suddenly arose on the sea, so great that the boat was being swamped by the waves, but he was asleep. And they went and woke him up, saying, “Lord, save us! We are perishing!” And he said to them, “Why are you afraid, you of little faith?” Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a dead calm. They were amazed, saying, “What sort of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him?” —Matthew 8:23-27