Stories

If you have been a part of serving here at Blue Ridge you’ve probably heard of our serving values. These are a list of biblical principles that are...

Tabitha North first met the guys who started Engage while waitressing at Carol’s Place in Forest. But about that time Tabitha got pregnant, was put...

My parents and my husband’s parents have both been married for 50 years. When I got married, divorce was not an option. It was not part of my world...

If you came early to Blue Ridge on Sunday mornings and peeked into the Kindergarten/First Grade (K-1) room, you'd see little cubicles along one wal...

I remember when I was younger hearing people talk about the deep love they had for their family. But I didn’t know what it was like to accept love,...

You make a lot of choices each day. You probably had a few dozen shampoos to pick from when you stopped by the pharmacy. A whole menu of options fo...

The son of a restaurant owner and a mother who served in World War II as a nurse, I learned early about perfectionism, alcoholism and codependency....

Once upon a time there lived a man in Florida (Bill) and a woman in Alaska (me) who had no clue that their lives would someday be intertwined in a ...

Bernie and Sofia Hale married young and soon found that despite their desire to follow God, they had many obstacles — Bernie’s past, their financia...

Throughout my life words such as angry, hard and rebellious described me exactly. I grew up in New Orleans and was schooled in life’s toughest less...

I was raised in a very loving Christian family and attended church, but some time during high school I veered off that path. It was the Woodstock e...

I lived so much of my life serving my own selfish desires. I hurt many people along the way, but God pursued me, and put people in my path to show ...