Stories

Inside: Middle School

Inside: Middle School

Serving in middle school has been a life-changing experience for me. I started serving about a year ago, and at first, I hesitated in saying “yes”...

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Serving Is Our Response To God

In my last blog, we talked about excellence, and when I see that excellence coming through, that understanding, I see a change. Serving changes fro...

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Inside: Parking Team

Inside: Parking Team

With the exception of thunder and lighting, no weather condition keeps this hearty crew from welcoming drivers and their passengers onto campus. No...

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Inside: Worship Team

Inside: Worship Team

I’ll never forget when I first found out you could audition to be on the worship team at Blue Ridge. I didn’t even live in Lynchburg at the time; w...

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Excellence

When we talk about the value of excellence, we're not talking about perfection. Not by any means! We're really talking about excellence of the hear...

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Inside: Kids Community

Inside: Kids Community

Serving on a BR Kids team, whether it's in the Cradle (for infants), Walkers (babies who are walking and not yet 2), Twos, Preschool, K-1 or KidStu...

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Sharing Easter With Kids

If you have little children in your house, you may struggle a bit this time of year with sharing the true meaning of Easter. I know I did. Christ...

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Not About Me

When I think back to when God was instilling our serving values into us, we’d constantly say to one another, “It’s not about us.” We are so easily...

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Attitude

One of the serving values God put in place at Blue Ridge centered on our attitude. Have you ever heard the quote, “People try church thinking they...

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Loving Others

In addition to unity, God's Word tells us that others will know we are His disciples by how we love one another. So our love must look drastically ...

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Binding Up The Brokenhearted

Maribeth Ferry moved to Lynchburg in January 2013, hoping to make a fresh start after a very trying 2012. Her pregnant sister nearly died of a brai...

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Unity

In my last post, we looked at the value of prayer. The next thing God showed us was unity. In serving God, there’s no “us against them.” We're all ...

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