Brethren Song and Story Festival at Camp Emmanuel

Starts: Sunday, July 1st 2012 at 12:00 am
Ends: Saturday, July 7th 2012 at 12:00 am

Illinois Central Song & Story Fest 2012: All Aboard!

Camp Emmanuel, Astoria, Illinois
July 1-7, 2012

A Family Camp featuring Brethren musicians and storytellers in
the woods and river valleys of central Illinois!

Why not take a ride on the Illinois Central Railroad? Do not pass “GO.” Well, you can’t really. The railroad was bought by the Canadian National Railway in 1998. But you can still ride some of the historic Illinois Central trains like the City of New Orleans, operated by Amtrak.

We’re going to celebrate railroads and trains this year at the Fest and take some of our themes and titles from songs and stories about trains. Our country has been interlaced with railroad tracks for almost two hundred years, but those tracks are fast disappearing, like the other physical connections we have with each other.

We’ll explore the impact of our increasingly virtual (not to be confused with virtuous) world on our relationships and on the role of the church in keeping face-to-face communities alive. So join us in Riding the Rails in Comfort, Playing for Peanuts in the Club Car, praying for Cannonballs No More, remembering the Wreck of El Capitan, and celebrating When We Reach Our Destination, where Ain’t No One Keeping Score, no one is Left Waiting at the Station, and there’s No Cryin’ There.

Climb aboard our train Bound for Glory!

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