Chapter 18
Sunday
JOSH AND JAKE were among the first to arrive at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church Sunday morning.
“Is this the only church in the valley?” Jake said, as they walked up to the church’s entrance.
“Not at all,” Josh said, “there’s a Methodist Church and a Presbyterian Church just down the road.”
“You told me the population in the valley was only five hundred. How can three churches be supported by so few people?”
“Before 5-20-20 they used to draw worshipers from two adjacent valleys, but times changed and the churches have had to adapt just like everyone else. You said you grew up in the Episcopal Church.”
“Yeah.”
“High church or low?”
“High,” Jake said. “Very high, actually, almost Anglo-catholic.”
“In that case, you’ll feel right at home here.”
LATER, AS THEY were dri
