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CANTON, S.D. The Nativity stable at Canton Lutheran Church will be silent this year, breaking from a community tradition of gathering for a live Christmas performance. Instead, churches in this rural corner of South Dakota are grappling with how to approach an Advent filled with quiet mourning after the coronavirus tore through the region.
Church announcements are marked not with parties and performances, but with deaths. South Dakota and North Dakota, states largely spared from the worst of the pandemic during the spring and summer, have seen a frightening pace of death since October. The states’ per capita death over the fall was almost double that of even the next worst-off state.
CANTON, S.D. (AP) â As churches in rural communities in South Dakota approach this yearâs Christmas season, church announcements are marked not with parties and performances, but with deaths.
Churches in Canton, South Dakota, are grappling with how to approach an Advent filled with quiet mourning after a series of coronavirus deaths in the community.
Yet congregations are also finding new significance in the season when Christians mark the long, dark nights leading up to Christmas by preparing to celebrate the hope of Jesus Christâs birth.
The Rev. Tim Thies of Canton Lutheran says, âWeâre a people hurting for hope.â
Hurting for hope, South Dakota rural churches mark Advent
by Stephen Groves, The Associated Press
Posted Dec 19, 2020 9:47 am EDT
Last Updated Dec 19, 2020 at 9:56 am EDT
CANTON, S.D. The Nativity stable at Canton Lutheran Church will be silent this year, breaking from a community tradition of gathering for a live Christmas performance. Instead, churches in this rural corner of South Dakota are grappling with how to approach an Advent filled with quiet mourning after the coronavirus tore through the region.
Church announcements are marked not with parties and performances, but with deaths. South Dakota and North Dakota, states largely spared from the worst of the pandemic during the spring and summer, have seen a frightening pace of death since October. The states’ per capita death over the fall was almost double that of even the next worst-off state.