At 63, Carole McCormick is one of the younger parishioners in her home congregation of Faith, Powell River, B.C. And that’s a problem. As council chair, McCormick finds much of the work at the church – where the majority of members are 75 or older – falls to her because there are few others able to do it. “It’s very difficult to expect 78-year-old people to go and do things like scrape snow off the sidewalk and to make sure somebody is there turning on the heat every Sunday. There’s a lot of that kind of stuff; it’s a challenge.” Although...