 St. Anthony interior.  Grace.  St. Anthony.  The La Condesa on the Santa Maria Valley Railroad. |
First United Methodist Church of Arroyo Grande
This Train is Bound for GloryPostponed! Unfortunately, we have to cancel our May 3rd date due to railroad activities. We'll post here as soon as a new date is set. Thanks for your patience.9:00am - 10:00am At the historic freight depot in Santa Maria. Continental breakfast. Chapel car slide show and talk by Jamie Foster. 10:15am - 12:30pm Train Excursion Santa Maria to Guadalupe and back with on-board worship service. Tickets: $45/person. Once available (after the date is set) contact the church office (481-2692) or Jamie Foster. 25 seats will be available. "Chapel Cars" once ran on the rails of the old west, bringing spirituality and morality "to an untamed world". This will be a unique opportunity to learn about and experience this piece of church history from the late 1800s and early 1900s. Sunday services, Sunday Schools, weddings, funerals, and everything in between were held on chapel cars as they moved on the railroad from town to town. We'll meet at 9:00am at the historic freight depot building of the Santa Maria Valley Railroad (in downtown Santa Maria) for a continental breakfast and slide show presentation by Jamie Foster called "This Train Is Bound for Glory". Following the presentation, we'll board the La Condesa, a vintage Pullman observation car, for a train ride to Guadalupe and back, including an en-route worship service led by Bob Underwood and Bill Foster. At left is the railcar we'll use. It's not a chapel car, but it's quite close to that vintage - a 1926 Pullman observation car. |