2019 Mar 23, 🚎Faith of our Fathers Trolley Tour of Tuscumbia, Alabama

March 23, 2019 

Everyone met at Coldwater Books and began boarding the trolley at 9:30AM.

Lt. Col. Arthur Graves talking to a couple of tourists

The trolley was taking a group on a “Tour of the Faith of our Fathers” Historic Churches of Tuscumbia.

Ron Hudson said that the Georgian Gothic-style First Presbyterian Church was Alabama's oldest house of continual worship and where the Keller Family worshiped for over a century.
Helen Keller was a Baptist here.
Notable Tuscumbians that attended her were Brig. Gen. James Deshler, CSA; Alabama Governor Robert Burns Lindsay; Judge John Anthony Steele, delegate to the State Secession Convention; and Thomas Limerick, first mayor of Tuscumbia and original trustee of the church. 

We explored the architecture and history of the First Presbyterian Church, Lesley Temple, and First Baptist Church, three of Tuscumbia’s oldest churches, and how the faith of our fathers impacted the growth of Tuscumbia. 

Lesley Temple (built around a log cabin, the original building)
Mr. Graves is a devoted member of Lesley Temple C.M.E. Church, where he is proudly the oldest male member of the church.  He serves on the Steward Board and is a Sunday school teacher.  He is also the host of his Sunday morning radio program on WZZA.

Lesley Temple (original light fixture from Presbyterian Church 

Our tour guides were Ron Hudson and Lt. Col. Arthur Graves, the oldest member of Lesley Temple, very knowledgeable about the history of Tuscumbia.

🙏🙏🙏🙏Hope, Faith & Courage ~POEM

Hope is wishing something would happen,

With the desire, my trembling arms reach for the stars

With anticipation, I walk with trembling knees-up to bat

With a trembling hand, my goal is to take that college courses

With an archaic body, I enter the doctor’s office hoping he will find nothing wrong

With the desire, I read God’s Word

Faith believes something will happen

I trust someday I will touch the stars

I believe someday I will hit that home run

I have a conviction that someday I will complete the courses for college

I have confidence that someday I will be that the doctor that I now fear

With God’s help, anything is possible

Courage is making something happen.

In my voyage to the moon, I reached out and touched the stars

Today I hit a home run and our team won ten to one.

Today I graduate college with honors and have become that physician that I once feared.

With courage, I stand on the word of God

Hope, Faith, and Courage come from God's Love.