All this doom and gloom, where is your faith is what I want to shout as I read this! Yes, if you want to look at numbers, they are down but no one has 8 kids anymore, more like 1 or none but 3 dogs. It is a different world but not a different faith. Trinity Athens Wis is a great place to be! New faces all the time, the trumpets will be playing on Easter, church was full on Lutheran schools celebration. But so much more could be done~~reach out to friends and challenge them to come with, create a new happening and include those around you. Cutting/looping bags for homeless mats, gel penning a picture with a Bible verse with a few friends for a "gentle" Bible study, the list goes on.