Stories

To begin to understand Rachel Jones’ life, you have to have heard of Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome (RSD). Most people have not. Even doctor...

Most of us have heard of it, but not many of us live in it. It seems unnatural, impossible, and controversial. Grace. We’ve generally been taught...

When Mandy McKim, a Virginia Tech senior, prepared to visit the Tibetan Trust Home in Nepal, she could not have known that the plane ride home woul...

Michael and Keisha Queen love God, each other and their three beautiful children. But there was a time, just a few years ago, when their marriage ...

In the past few years as I have personally navigated adoption and also walked with families formed through adoption and foster care, I have seen th...

Jamerson Bryant joined the Blue Ridge Campus Safety Team out of a sense of obligation, feeling he needed to serve somewhere. But what he found the...

Over the years, I have enjoyed getting together with parents with kids just a little bit older than mine. Early on, I decided to ask these parents ...

Ryan and Shenandoah French came into their marriage facing some financial challenges. "When I was old enough to make my own way, I wanted to ...

We’re all a bit prone toward a manufacturing mindset. That we get out what we put in. But as Christ followers, we are not making widgets, we are g...

Like many couples, we didn’t give much thought on our wedding day to the hard times to come. We weren’t naive enough to think that everything would...

It may surprise you to know that the friendly faces you see at the Reception Desk at Blue Ridge are all volunteers. We asked two of them to share a...

In December, Blue Ridge partners with Prison Fellowship Angel Tree to give Christmas gifts to nearly 200 children. This ministry helps keep prisone...