CpcWestYellowstone.org
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Community Protestant Church,West Yellowstone, MT - home
Description
West Yellowstone, Montana is nestled in a high mountain valley, in Southwest Montana, the west gate to Yellowstone National Park. We are a small community (approximately 12 blocks by 7) located four miles from Wyoming, eight from Idaho and stand at an elevation of 6, 666 feet. We are the West entrance to Yellowstone National Park with a year around population of nearly 1200 souls. With a major influx of 'summer folks' and tourists, advancing that figure to around 2400. Our economy is almost exclusively based on tourism and our population tends to be highly independent, fluid and temporary in the sense that folks come and go with the jobs or the businesses. Lifetime residence is rare. Primarily we are white with a significant seasonal Hispanic addition. Our school serves approximately 240 students in kindergarten through twelfth grade.
Our lives and ministry at Community Protestant Church are shaped by the outdoors (water/alpine/cross-country skiing, backpacking, cycling, flyfishing…). We are a church in transition. We are seeking to become strong within so that we might reach out to our inactive membership, our community, our extended community of seasonal residents and the greater world through some of the 1.2 million who visit Yellowstone each year.
"Community" is a key descriptive word in our name and make-up. As one of the only Protestant houses of worship in West Yellowstone, we draw many believers with lifelong church membership in other denominations and Christian fellowships. The joy and celebration of this for CPC is that people are identified as "Christian" first, rather than by denominational affiliation.
