Jim Applegate, 54, pastor for 21 years of
Westview Christian Church in Campbellsburg, Ind., died of COVID-19 on Dec. 20, followed by virus-related deaths of his mother (12 hours later), and his sister (on Christmas Eve).
“The thing that’s keeping me going is . . . hope in Jesus because I know where they’re at,”
Nicholas Applegate, the pastor’s son and WCC’s youth pastor, told WHAS11.com. “The first few weeks in December our community had seen a lot of COVID cases, especially here in our church family.”
In addition to the death of his father, Nicholas Applegate’s grandmother,
Pat Applegate, 82, and his aunt,