Stories

His first reaction was “no.” Marc Beverly’s wife, Karen, was doing the Encounter group when someone from her table invited Marc to a men’s study o...

Chelsea Hager came to Blue Ridge during her junior year of college, a time filled with a whirlwind of academics, friends, social activities and lea...

Will Likins doesn’t do anything halfway, so he didn’t just walk away from religion, he ran. The young boy who had grown up going to church on Sund...

I spent my first four years at Blue Ridge feeling pretty alone. We’re a big church. My husband and I had a newborn and a 2-year-old in tow when we...

As a preteen, I enjoyed going quail hunting. I would sometimes come to a barbed-wire fence I had to cross. Some were tightly strung between the pos...

You may have noticed our new Blue Ridge logo on our web page or in social media. We’ve put a lot of thought into this change and wanted to give you...

I confess that I abandoned my garden this summer. I was away from home for five weeks, and when I was home it was either too hot or too wet to rea...

When Katherine Jarvis’ husband died unexpectedly from a brain aneurysm two years ago, she lost the man who, after 36 years of marriage, could finis...

You may not realize it, but you probably brush your teeth the same way every day. You back up your car with the same motions. You sit at the same s...

Did you know that when you enjoy a quick snack and fellowship with friends at our Blue Ridge Café or buy a timely resource in The Bookstore that yo...

As I dove into the book of Jonah alongside the women in my Crash community, something quickly became clear me: He thought he knew better than God a...

“I really, really hope somebody was standing on the beach when Jonah came flying out of the whale. Imagine telling THAT story for the rest of your ...