Thankfully, for the churches and businesses of Bluefield, this doesn’t mark the end of the story. What we’ve done in Bluefield, what we’re seeing here is a return to humanity, a return to image-bearers. I think that we’re a great place, because we have people of all different social structures, people that would maybe throughout the week not cross each others’ paths, people that work in lots of different fields. That’s really what we needed: people with different eyes, looking at these businesses and seeing places they could operate. Rather than responding to their disappointments and displacement by giving up or leaving the community altogether, Bluefield is taking a different path: planting new seeds and new partnerships.