
Arrival
Park in the gravel lot by the cemetery gate and come in the front doors. Somebody will hand you a bulletin.
Sunday morning
Here's the whole morning, and how to find us when the GPS gives up.
First time
You'll be shaken hands with. That's about the worst of it.

Arrival
Park in the gravel lot by the cemetery gate and come in the front doors. Somebody will hand you a bulletin.
Parking
Gravel lot for about thirty cars. If it's full, pull onto the grass by the picnic shelter.
Children
Young'uns' Sunday School at 10. Babies can go to the nursery during preaching.
Length
Sunday School runs 50 minutes. Preaching is from 11 until about 12:15.
Dress
Some wear a tie, some come straight from feeding cattle. Both are fine.
Access
Ramp at the side door. Large-print hymnals and a hearing amplifier at the back.
The morning, start to finish
Fellowship hall, with whatever somebody baked.
Four classes, a lesson from the quarterly.
Hymns, a special, prayer requests and the sermon.
Then most of us stand around the parking lot talking.
Find us
Every week
The building is open for every service. Call ahead any other time and someone will meet you.
| MondayToday | No services |
|---|---|
| TuesdayToday | No services |
| WednesdayToday | 7:00 PM – 8:00 PMPrayer meeting |
| ThursdayToday | No services |
| FridayToday | No services |
| SaturdayToday | No services |
| SundayToday | 10:00 AM – 12:15 PM6:00 PM – 7:15 PMSunday School, preaching and the evening singing |
Special services
Snow on the road? We'll put it on the church Facebook page and call the prayer chain by 7 AM.
Questions
We're an independent missionary Baptist church. We cooperate with the Three Forks Association and keep our own business meetings on the first Saturday of the quarter.
Brother Harlan preaches from the King James. Read whatever you've got.
Yes, during the eleven o'clock service, in the room behind the piano.
Members and their families can. Call Darrell Ritchie, who keeps the cemetery book.
Design notes
Laurel Fork is for a country Baptist church of about seventy people in the hills outside Hindman. Most of its readers are older, many read on a phone a grandchild set up, and the site has to feel as plain and trustworthy as the church itself.
Headings are in Sorts Mill Goudy, a revival of the old-style roman you see in hymnals and county histories, with old-style figures so the dates sit in the line like they do in print. Reading text is Public Sans at 19 pixels, a sturdy face drawn for government forms that have to work for every reader, set large because half this congregation is past seventy. We tried Atkinson Hyperlegible first, but its slashed zeros made '10:00' look like a typo on a church sign.
The green is the dark leaf of the mountain laurel the creek is named for, and the rose is its bloom in May. The background is the gray-green of the ridges on a hazy morning. In the dark theme the green lightens toward the leaf's underside so it still reads on a phone at night.
The name sits centred at the top like a church sign, with plain words under it: Sunday Morning, Homecoming, Need a Hand. Everything is centred and generous, with no menus to hunt through and no animations to wait for.
The opening photograph has no words on it, just the white church across the field, with the caption set beneath it like a photograph in a family album. The details strip says where it is and when to come before anything else.
The main button gives directions, because the church is three miles up a hollow road and GPS sends people the wrong way at the fork. The second most important action is 'Ask for a hand', for heating, groceries and rides to Hazard.
Country churches, hazy ridges, covered-dish tables and older faces. No stage lights or big crowds, because there are none here.
Large type, high contrast, every phone number tappable and every time written out in full. The church phone number appears on every page because many members will call before they will fill in a form.
Every text pairing is checked against WCAG 2.2 in both themes.
| Pairing | Sample | Ratio | WCAG |
|---|---|---|---|
| Body text on page | Aa | 13.65:1 | AAA |
| Body text on cards | Aa | 15.7:1 | AAA |
| Secondary text | Aa | 5.8:1 | AA |
| Links | Aa | 7.02:1 | AAA |
| Button text | Aa | 8.08:1 | AAA |
| Accent label text | Aa | 5.7:1 | AA |
| Text on dark bands | Aa | 13.65:1 | AAA |
| Muted text on dark bands | Aa | 7.39:1 | AAA |
| Text on brand bands | Aa | 8.08:1 | AAA |
| Muted text on brand bands | Aa | 5.38:1 | AA |
| Pairing | Sample | Ratio | WCAG |
|---|---|---|---|
| Body text on page | Aa | 14.86:1 | AAA |
| Body text on cards | Aa | 13.4:1 | AAA |
| Secondary text | Aa | 6.7:1 | AA |
| Links | Aa | 9.25:1 | AAA |
| Button text | Aa | 9.81:1 | AAA |
| Accent label text | Aa | 8.73:1 | AAA |
| Text on dark bands | Aa | 15.99:1 | AAA |
| Muted text on dark bands | Aa | 8.11:1 | AAA |
| Text on brand bands | Aa | 9.81:1 | AAA |
| Muted text on brand bands | Aa | 5.8:1 | AA |
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