The spirit of a rural community is essential for maintaining the life of the community. It must involve community residents that have the ambition and energy to work endless hours. Leadership must be present within, and be willing to take on challenges that may overwhelm them from time to time. Every community has a different culture it supports or would like to foster. Communities are like big families and have their own ideas on how they would like to grow and move forward. Only the communities that are aggressive will be able to move forward. It is a struggle and challenge as their resources and knowledge is limited at times. There are many times that they find it would be easier to fade into the process of deterioration. If leadership and knowledge are offered to communities then there are usually residents within willing to devote their talents and abilities to the cause. Everyone has something to offer. Our jobs as leaders must be to recognize those talents and abilities. We must provide opportunity for the utilization of the talents and abilities of those in the community. This will help to foster and maintain the spirit in the community. We must create projects and programs that will promote participation from every level of the social status of residents in the community. We must recognize the other side of the equation. It involves the buy-in of the residents and the efficient, effective execution of ideas and suggestions that will foster participation.