Stories

The O’Briens Share Their 15-Year Journey With Celebrate Recovery

The O’Briens Share Their 15-Year Journey With Celebrate Recovery

In 2002, David and Debbie O’Brien began Celebrate Recovery at Blue Ridge. As they prepare for the 15th an...

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What God Does When We Lean In

What God Does When We Lean In

When Todd and John first started getting together outside of Sunday mornings to hold a weekly Bible study for Safety Team servers, they were som...

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How God Led Us To Bedford

How God Led Us To Bedford

David Michon had been serving at Blue Ridge three years with the worship team when Worship Pastor Todd Foster talked to him about leading the te...

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'Everything Is Gone': Finding New Life After The Storm

'Everything Is Gone': Finding New Life After The Storm

Cody and Brittany McCune were on their way home from work when they got a call from their neighbor saying, “Everything is gone.” On that day, Fe...

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On Mission: Serving In Bedford

On Mission: Serving In Bedford

Brian and Keyla Dalee Jones had been praying for years together about being missionaries.

However, as they pursued their dream to serve ...

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Prayer Ministry: Connecting With God, Holding Up One Another

Prayer Ministry: Connecting With God, Holding Up One Another

Jim and Darlene Noffsinger loved the tight-knit group of believers they found at Concord Bible Fellowship. The only issue was that they lived in...

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Does God Have a Bigger Story for Your Life?

Does God Have a Bigger Story for Your Life?

With Christmas approaching and life feeling a little crazy, it can be easy to get mired in details and frustrations of life and to miss the bigg...

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Don’t Let Debt Steal Christ from Your Christmas

Don’t Let Debt Steal Christ from Your Christmas

We call it the most wonderful time of the year, the time we celebrate the birth of our Savior. But for many, the rapidly approaching Christmas s...

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Being the Church, Moving People — through the Moving Ministry

Being the Church, Moving People — through the Moving Ministry

In November 2013, my wife and I unexpectedly found ourselves needing to quickly move. With no family close by and young sons, we desperately nee...

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When Someone Asks for Something You Have

When Someone Asks for Something You Have

This is how we’ve come to understand and experience love: Christ sacrificed his life for us. This is why we ought to live sacrificially for ...

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Do You Want Us To Pick You Up?

Do You Want Us To Pick You Up?

Allen Collins was living through some of the worst times of his life when he met Jeff Powers.

Through a series of devastating events, Al...

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Celebrate Recovery: ‘You Have No Idea the Compassion I’ve Felt’

Celebrate Recovery: ‘You Have No Idea the Compassion I’ve Felt’

I always felt something was missing.

I felt broken inside. I wanted to get better. I wanted to be that person. But I made bad choices ...

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