With this being my final first word I want to say, thank you! As I have spent the last six years exploring the stories of the people that make up FBC, I've realized that every story matters…
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“Walking through God’s open doors, though it’s not always easy, does allow us to experience Him. Can you imagine if Paul and Silas would not have done what God had told them to do…
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Let me set the scene for you. Pastor Chip walked into my office and closed the door. This is one of those moments in life when I'll never forget the details. I said to him…
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When I was in college, I went on a student-led mission trip to Nicaragua to partner with a local ministry that planted churches and trained pastors. We decided that we were going to take as many suitcases as our fundraising would pay for, and we filled them with gifts: toys, clothes, and candy. The house we used to stage our charitable efforts looked like…
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The other day I read a news article about a 5th grader named Ruby that came up with an idea to bless the residents of the nursing home where her mother works. One day, when…
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Despite what many of us tend to believe before we enter into a marriage relationship, marriage is not “warm and fuzzy feelings” all of the time. I realized this important piece of information nearly seventeen years ago as I was standing with my husband of less than two weeks in the middle of a grocery store in Northern Virginia fighting over…
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