Which is significant because Patrick Henry is about 50 miles from Washington, D.C., the nearest city. The nearest business is a John Deere distributorship. The nearest Starbucks, a Patrick Henry student favorite, is 9 miles away. A popular activity on weekend nights has been pick-up soccer played beneath campus lights on both sides of midnight and swing dancing at a nearby studio. The dress code is corporate casual, as in khakis for the guys, dresses or slacks for the gals.
Students live on campus, men and women in separate dorms.
Daily chapel service is required, boys are supposed to seek approval of a girl's parents before proceeding to courtship, and same-sex dating is not allowed. If this all sounds like something out of the 1950s, it's intentional. The students aren't complaining. Here there is more of an emphasis on living your Christianity, not just speaking it. Farris expects to enroll an additional 75 students in the fall, which will nearly double the size of the student body.