In pain you brought us forth
Into your loving arms
And you told us of our worth
And you won us with your charms

Love marked your life to us
As you gave us your best years
Cleaning, caring, shaping us,
And drying all our tears (more…)

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The Women’s Prayer Group meets on the fourth Monday of each month. We share prayer requests and spend the majority of the time praying. We loosely follow the format of praise, confession, thanksgiving, and intercession that was shared during the Women’s Retreat in 2011. We keep a written record of our prayers in journals and just recently we spent one of our times together praising God for all of the answered prayers over the last year of meeting. At one of our prayer group times, you might see crying, laughing, and Bible pages flipping as we turn to just the right scripture to pray at that moment. (more…)

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A special message from Dr. Tripp on the upcoming Shepherding a Child’s Heart seminar March 30 and 31. Get more details and register online here.

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Our speakers’ presentations at the January 2012 Women’s One-Day Retreat were so terrific and challenging, we wanted to make them available to everyone for review and for those who couldn’t attend. Here is a summary of each speaker’s comments. It was a powerful day filled with great teaching, fellowship, sharing and growing in our spiritual walk with our Lord!

Follow the links in this post for each recap by the speakers.

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[Recap of Christy's talk at the January 2012 One-Day Women's Retreat.]

If you’re a Christian, you’ve heard about the gospel, or the good news, that Christ died to pay the price for your sin and rose again to conquer death and hell forever. We are grateful for the future we have in heaven. But what difference does the gospel make in our every-day lives? How should it change the way we live right now? (more…)

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By Karen Gill

[Recap of Karen Gill's talk at the January 2012 One-Day Women's Retreat.]

It’s often in the nitty gritty of family life where we see the gospel lived out. The ideal is that out of our relationship with Christ, we act in love and grace, not out of selfishness. We act in love, out of who we are in Christ. We want to be conformed more and more into the image of Christ and we want that same thing in others. Colossians 2:6 tells us, “So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live in him.” We received the incredible good news of the gospel, received Christ as Lord, and now we are to live in the knowledge of Him and of that truth and dependent on His Spirit living in us. That truth is to make a difference in how we live and how we relate to others. (more…)

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So what does it take to get started sharing the Gospel? Even if you don’t have the gift of evangelism? Read how three Blue Ridge women are motivated to faithfully make themselves available to those who have not heard The Truth. Panel participants were: Jodi Benedict, Dee Losh and Suzanne Larry. (more…)

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By Patrice Smith

[Recap of Patrice's talk at the January 2012 One-Day Women's Retreat.]

In the last ten years, we’ve gone on six family mission trips to Ireland. It is scary at times. It’s a lot of work getting there too. I probably spend more hours planning the trip than we actually spend in Ireland. It’s a lot of money that we could use to buy other things. It means the kids miss out on things, like scouting camp, and horse shows and the national vaulting championships, year after year. But, it means so much more. It means my family and I have a relationship with another country and another culture. It means we say ”gabh mo leithsceal” at the dinner table instead of “excuse me” and “Slan abhuile” when one of us leaves the house, instead of “Goodbye, get there safely”. It means all eight of us drink a lot of Irish tea, and never Lipton. It is much more than a family vacation. And yet, it is more than a mission trip too. It is a spiritual boot camp. It is a family tradition and culture builder. It is a large part of who we are as a family. (more…)

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Registration is now open! Register online here.

Speaker: Tedd Tripp

March 30-31, 2012 at Blue Ridge Bible Church

Dr. Tedd Tripp draws on over 30 years of experience as a pastor, counselor, school administrator, and father in giving his valuable help to parents. Shepherding a Child’s Heart is about how to speak to the heart of your child. The things your child does and says flow from the heart. Luke 6:45 puts it this way, “…out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks.” (NIV) Designed for parents with children of any age, this seminar provides perspectives and procedures for shepherding your child’s heart into the paths of life. Purchase his book here: Shepherding a Child’s Heart. Continue reading for complete details. (more…)

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Have you checked out our church’s “team effort” known as Blue Ridge Community Builder? Just go to brbible.ccbchurch.com and get going. (more…)

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