South of the Border: Our second Christmas in the Sweet Grass Hills
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Church members and guests participate in Holy Communion during the Christmas Eve service at the Whitlash Presbyterian Church. The church has survived more than a century by adapting as times and conditions changed in the Hills. Sunday services continue to draw an average of twenty worshippers.
Columnist's note: When Sherry (my wife) and I moved to Whitlash mid-December of last year our plan was to leave about this time (December, 2019) when Sherry's year of pastor-in-residence to the Whitlash Presbyterian Church would be completed. She and the congregation decided to extend the arrangement until next fall. That gave us a second Christmas at Whitlash.
Our first Christmas here was very sad and neither my wife nor I have a clear recollection of our first Christmas in the Sweet Grass Hills. Last December our 24-year-old granddaughter, Kayla, died suddenly in Washington state. It wa...
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