Mostly the messy church families seem to have stopped being at the morning services. If by "making it happen" you mean, are they doing all the work, no, not really. Usually they take it in turns to cook, but the rest is done by myself and one other volunteer. And while the other volunteer is on the parish council, no one else from that group is.
Probably there could be a review of all services, but I'm not sure whether that's what I want to do. I don't really intend to mess with the mornings much, at least in the foreseeable future. I haven't directly asked that question yet about putting it during the week (I know that's what the official messy church recommendations are), but my guess would be that they won't be keen. Weekdays are hard enough already.
And this is the problem, at rock bottom: life is busy and families have too many things on. It's very rare for anyone to prioritise church to the point of giving something else a miss, so we tend to be at the mercy of their sporting, music and other extra-curricular activities. And all of those things are good, so it's hard to argue with parents that church is important enough to say "I'm sorry, x won't be able to go to that competition/play in that team/be in the band, because worship is more important."
And until they do that... it's very hard to build thriving ministries with people who only come when there's nothing else on.
