One man. Seven stone churches. A family road trip through ghosts and granite.
Bob Childress was the founder and builder of the famous "Rock Churches" of southwest Virginia, all established between 1919 and 1954. In 2022, Buford Jessup and his family set out to visit all seven of his great uncle's churches.
Cinematography
Those misty Virginia mountains look like they were carved by the same hands.
Writing
Title so specific it feels like a family inside joke you're now part of.
Director
Christian Jessup
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Bob Childress's churches are still active — you can literally attend services in his great-nephew's documentary subject.
The 'Rock Churches' represent a uniquely Appalachian phenomenon: Presbyterian faith built from literal mountainside stone, refusing to separate sacred from landscape.
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