This is the true story of New Direction Farm: a Christian therapeutic boarding
school for teenagers on top of a high mountain in middle-of-nowhere
Madison County, North Carolina. Here, you will meet many people, but the
main players are a stockbroker, a therapist, a marine, a hermit, and a prodigal son.
Leaving their careers and starting from scratch, Bridget and David Walls followed
the call of the Lord to “go and find a place set apart for the healing of youth and
their families.” Rather than moving a mountain, God called them to a mountain.
With the help of many hands and pockets of followers of Jesus Christ, New
Direction Farm became a thriving community. According to the couple, “God was
calling us to do life with the teenagers—to put aside all the diagnoses and simply
teach them how to engage as contributing members of community. The values of
respect and responsibility were the plumb lines from which each would operate.”
Since opening its doors, over three hundred teenagers have lived on New Direction
Farm over a seventeen-year period. Through faith—and God’s mercy and love—
the Walls have been able to remain committed, through thick and thin. Now, meet
them and all the other amazing people New Direction Farm has helped.