Where the heck are we?

We've had a couple of friends wonder where exactly in North Carolina we are. I have posted a map of North Carolina with arrows pointing to where our churches are now (i.e. Stem, NC, the RED arrow) and where our new churches are going to be (i.e. in between Oxford and Kittrell, NC, the GREEN arrow).

We're about 1 hour south of the Virginia border; 4 hours south of Washington D.C.; 3 hours west of the Atlantic ocean. We're in the area of Northern Carolina known as the Piedmont - basically the foothills to the Appalachians.

Imagine rolling hills covered with forests of about 60/40 pine and hardwood. It's pretty wet here compared to Northern California and in the lower lying places water accumulates to make swampy areas.