Living in Rocky Mount, Virginia, we had to drive more than an hour on the Blue Ridge Parkway to get to Church meetings in Roanoke. There were just three families who were active members from Rocky Mount. It was decided that we should have our own Sunday School and try several times a week to find inactive members in the area who did not make that hour-long trip. We found a member who had an old, worn-out beauty shop and would let us use it for meetings.

We three families drove many miles up into the hollers looking for inactive members, inviting them to join us. For many months there were just a few who came. Then the missionaries were sent to town, and they gave us a few new members. More people came, and within a year we were a small branch with twenty faithfully attending members and investigators. My family soon moved from the area, and I unfortunately did not get to see the continued growth. I learned the group in Rocky Mount became an independent branch with more than sixty members meeting in a larger building.

-Anon.