Another Church Gig

Mum and I did our best impersonations of intelligent, informed and theologically-minded worship leaders today. Our theme was "Joy" and man, can we plug a theme. If I counted up, hymns included, we likely said the word joy one hundred times! That's an old trick from my radio days -- you keep hitting the same phrase over and over and it will stick in the listeners' mind.

What is sad is looking out from the pulpit and seeing a dozen people there in their seventies and eighties. There is no one young keeping the church going. Mum said there is talk of shutting down the church, and it only hosts one service a month as it is.
There are so many old, white, well-maintained country churches in rural Nova Scotia and River Philip UC is a very pretty one (with those old square pews and tall, tall windows). It's a shame to know they'll be shuttered and silent some day soon.
Sounds like an article, doesn't it, but Mum and I have been talking it over and there is no solution; it's just a lament.