Like many religious traditions in an increasingly unchurched America, the annual graduation rite of baccalaureate tends to draw fewer participants each year in Rapid City and other Black Hills communities.

Spearfish High School will graduate about 150 seniors on May 22,  but only about 35 of them showed up at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church for a community-wide 2011 baccalaureate service on May 15 that was  organized and sponsored by the Spearfish Ministerial Association.

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