Stories

When Church Production magazine called to ask about our audio system, Andrew Hunt, Technical Director, couldn’t have known he would wind up on the ...

Divorce creates big questions. Why is this happening? Did I do anything to cause this? Where is God in the middle of this? Mickey Bickford remembe...

Encounter invites participants to walk through the book of John and ask, “Who is this man, Jesus, and what does He want from me?” We all have ques...

I think I could read it a hundred times in a row. Every time it would stir me at the core with the hope and the beauty and the grit and the realne...

Blue Ridge’s Freeway brings together people with specific needs with those in our body who can fill those needs with the love of Christ. Here’s the...

A few years ago, Tony Erskine read a book that changed how he viewed life and his career. The idea of discovering “Joy at Work” challenged him and ...

When Worship Pastor Todd Foster got to Bible college, he started getting people together to pray. He was a little older than most students coming r...

In the Lynchburg area, I meet quite a few people who grew up like I did. I was in church 2-3 times per week. I went to Christian school. I went to ...

Joel Damiani was having one of the worst nights of his life when the doorbell rang at 10 pm. He was shocked to see three guys from a men’s ministry...

A simple invitation has often led me to something that has completely changed my life. I remember the night our Encounter table leader, Danny Hors...

On an ordinary day, playing with his two best friends, 10-year-old Todd Foster heard God’s calling for his life. “We were playing in the driveway,...

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...