Loved your article. We are part of a rural Anglican church which fortunately has bucked the too normal trend of waning attendance. However our early Sunday service at one time had a fairly sparse number, dotted all over the pews. Our new Rector suggested to them that given the dispersion it might be advantageous to all sit on one side, from then on he encouraged them all to sit on an alternate side each Sunday. Three years later they are still doing this though the numbers now are totally filling one side and on occasion they have spilled over to the other.

David
[Lay Reader, Sexton and past Warden]