After pastor dies suddenly, family finds provision through ChRP survivor benefit

By Grace Thornton The Alabama Baptist All of Abbeville was stunned when 40-year-old Michael Whitt, pastor of the city’s First Baptist Church, died of a sudden heart attack on the softball field July 9. But no one was more stunned than his wife, Melissa, and four children — Elizabeth, Lydia, Julia and Jonathan. “The night Mike died was the longest…