Now, more than a year after Y2K proved to be no disaster at all, the community is flourishing with new families moving in regularly. Griffith sought financing and put up some of his own money to make the idea work. Members of the tight-knit community visit each other daily. Potluck dinners are held at the church once a month and the women have tea time and attend Christian homemaking and mothering classes. The community's goal is to build a self-sustaining Reformed Christian culture made up of strong families who focus on home business and homesteading.
Many families also believe in home-birth.
Those who can't work at home commute about an hour to Roanoke or Christiansburg. The first thing they think of is Waco or Jim Jones. It's nothing like that. Part of the reason our country is where it is today is because of the breakdown in the home. We want our children to grow up in a steady community with the health and stability our country once had.