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We believe in one church, many locations, that exist to help people move closer to God. Our New London Campus is in Forest, Va., and our Bedford Campus in Bedford, Va. In the mid-1970's, a small group of believers began meeting together in Concord, Virginia, for the purpose of learning how to study the Bible. In 1976 that Bible study formed into a small, non-denominational church, Concord Bible Fellowship. As we started getting organized, we attempted to make our church as much like the New Testament model as we could. Our format was informal and our emphasis was on helping Christians grow in their faith. We had no paid staff, our building was humble, and 70 percent of our budget went to support international missions. Over the next 15 years, our growth was slow and sporadic. We began to realize that there were things about our society's culture that were changing and, in order to be effective, we needed to change too. Our church was five miles from a main road and 20 miles from Lynchburg. We had grown to about 60 people (men, women and children) and didn't seem to be able to go further. Most of our new people were coming from other churches in Lynchburg. How could we be more accessible? How could we reach out to unchurched people? How could we make our church an exciting place? Blue Ridge Community Church was born on January 20, 1991, and our first meeting was at Brookville High School. We changed our name to reflect our new, more convenient location. We radically modified our format to be more attractive to unchurched people, and we changed the culture of our church to reflect a primary emphasis on outreach. Over the years as we have grown, we met in a school cafeteria, an auditorium, a gym, a renovated grocery store, and even a night club. In 2005, we moved into a newly constructed, permanent building on New London Road in Forest, Virginia.

We believe in one church, many locations, that exist to help people move closer to God. Our New London Campus is in Forest, Va., and our Bedford Campus in Bedford, Va. In the mid-1970's, a small group of believers began meeting together in Concord, Virginia, for the purpose of learning how to study the Bible. In 1976 that Bible study formed into a small, non-denominational church, Concord Bible Fellowship. As we started getting organized, we attempted to make our church as much like the New Testament model as we could. Our format was informal and our emphasis was on helping Christians grow in their faith. We had no paid staff, our building was humble, and 70 percent of our budget went to support international missions. Over the next 15 years, our growth was slow and sporadic. We began to realize that there were things about our society's culture that were changing and, in order to be effective, we needed to change too. Our church was five miles from a main road and 20 miles from Lynchburg. We had grown to about 60 people (men, women and children) and didn't seem to be able to go further. Most of our new people were coming from other churches in Lynchburg. How could we be more accessible? How could we reach out to unchurched people? How could we make our church an exciting place? Blue Ridge Community Church was born on January 20, 1991, and our first meeting was at Brookville High School. We changed our name to reflect our new, more convenient location. We radically modified our format to be more attractive to unchurched people, and we changed the culture of our church to reflect a primary emphasis on outreach. Over the years as we have grown, we met in a school cafeteria, an auditorium, a gym, a renovated grocery store, and even a night club. In 2005, we moved into a newly constructed, permanent building on New London Road in Forest, Virginia.

Blue Ridge Community College is a two-year, comprehensive post-secondary institution. Its service area includes Henderson and Transylvania Counties which are located in the Blue Ridge Mountains in Western North Carolina. Blue Ridge: * Offers more than 90 programs of study that include associate degrees, diplomas and certificates. * Offers a wide range of college transfer courses. * Has four articulation programs with four-year colleges and universities. * Provides one of the largest Continuing Education programs in the state. Students successfully graduating from Blue Ridge are eligible to transfer into any of North Carolina's 18 public colleges and universities.

Founded in 1967, Blue Ridge Community College serves the residents of the central Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Comprehensive programs of instruction include associate degrees, diplomas, and certificates in occupational/technical and college/university transfer programs. The College also provides non-credit workforce training and special interest classes for individuals, business, and industry.

At Blue Ridge Development Group we believe true success is proceeded by succession. For this reason, it is our mission to coach select individuals within our mentorship and leadership system. Due to the exclusivity of our approach, we limit the numbers we take on. We feel this adds value to our system and ultimately to the associates we partner with. As a result, we work with some of the most determined, creative, driven, and outside-the-box thinking individuals in our field. Our mission is to become the leader in personal finance development through a mentorship program utilizing a proven business development system. We strive to develop fiscally responsible citizens in local communities who operate on a debt-free life structure while building passive income portfolios. What we do: *Provide personal finance education to post grads and professionals *Provide an arena to perform in amongst other successful professionals *Provide an additional annualized earnings platform to create more financial options *Look to change the value placed on personal finance and wealth creation in communities that lack the resources necessary for mentoring individuals who seek to be the top 10% income earners in their area *Identify leaders and team collaborators through a mentor-mentee business partner relationship

Blue Ridge Energy encompasses the electric cooperative (Blue Ridge Electric Membership Corp) and our wholly-owned propane and fuels subsidiary (Blue Ridge Energies, LLC). Coming together as an integrated company in 2016 under the market name of Blue Ridge Energy, we are a comprehensive, innovative energy solutions source for our members and consumers. The parent company remains a member-owned electric cooperative serving some 74,000 member accounts in northwest North Carolina and we are affiliated with Touchstone Energy. Our propane and fuels subsidiary serves over 20,000 residential and commercial customers from Catawba County, NC, to Independence, Va. With headquarters in Lenoir, Blue Ridge Energy has showrooms, service and operations offices for electric, propane and fuels consumers located in Lenoir, Boone, West Jefferson, and Sparta, NC. Offices serving propane and fuels consumers are also located in Morganton, NC, and Independence, Va. A second subsidiary, RidgeLink, LLC, is a business-to-business company offering dark fiber to national companies needing middle mile and long-haul capacity for data, voice and video services.