Facilitate

"Do you know anyone who can facilitate a meeting?" a question that lead me to help out the lovely congregation at Norland avery small village near Sowerby Bridge. It consists as far as could see with a school, a church, and a working men's club.
With an average congregation of 15 on paper it was hard to conceive of it's survival, but for the dozen or so who gathered this afternoon it was hard to conceive of it failing. They weren't deluded or mad, just confidently pressing on despite all that seemd against them.
Big plans and dreams emerged including opening a post office in the church, and forming partnerships. Perhaps even daring to dream that they might create the centre that the village lacked. "So much potential" their priest whispered to me as I left the building, but niether of us could see how the situation was sustainable, however neither could imagine that ever going to waste.
Let's hope today is yet another chapter for this kernal of regeneration