The older people died out. The young people went to college, got their degrees for lawyers, doctors. They didn't want to go back to the little towns. And they left us old folks here to ponder what the future, and dream about the past. A past when Ahavath Rayim 's Sunday School supported several hundred children.
Today there are only four young Jewish people left in town.
Most congregants are in their seventies or older. And it's not gonna get no better, it's gonna get worse. But we keep plugging along. On most Friday afternoons after he's done delivering the mail, Joe Erber sheds his postal uniform in favor of police sergeant's stripes. Joe has been an auxiliary policeman in Greenwood for the past 12 years.