Fearless 40 Prayer Challenge: Encouragement

Today is day 3 of the Fearless 40 Prayer Challenge! Batterson starts off by explicating Joshua 3:5  “Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow the Lord will do amazing things among you.” (Joshua 3:5). This is the clarion call for anyone expecting God to move in a big way. It speaks of the kind of preparation we need to make in […]

Healing and Forgiveness: Rooted Prayer Experience

Our fall Rooted groups recently went through their prayer experience. This involved going to prayer stations that prompted them to pray through different aspects of their journey through life with God. It was a powerful time for many of the participants, leading to much healing and forgiveness. God is on the move through Rooted! If […]

Final week to Fill a bag to Feed a belly!

Ridge Point is filling bellies of hundreds of kids in Holland and Zeeland! As we round the corner into the final week of October, our goal of 5,000 is in sight! Fearless Followers have been packing supper packs all month long and our collection boxes are literally overflowing. As of now, we have 3,500 supper […]

What does Rooted and Celebrate Recovery (CR) have in common?

What does Rooted and Celebrate Recovery (CR) have in common?  Actually, a lot!  According to the Rooted guide, Rooted Connects you with God, The Church and Your Purpose; so does CR!  The Guide says Rooted is a catalyst for change; CR is also a catalyst for change! The Rooted Guide says Rooted provokes questions, conversations, […]

Have you ever wanted to be just ordinary?

Have you ever wanted to be just ordinary? I used to want to be ordinary. I grew up looking different from the girls on tv and in magazines. And I definitely felt “different.” Which wasn’t a great feeling. I thought if I was “ordinary” that would mean that I would finally be enough or finally […]

Fill a Bag, Fill a Belly: Update

God is on the move! Ridge Point, you have blown us away with your excitement about Fill a Bag, Fill a Belly! We have received so many Supper Packs that we had to add extra containers to our displays. God is multiplying our ordinary things to have an extraordinary impact on the children in our […]

Moving Forward: A Celebrate Recovery Story

 Moving Forward – DivorceCare to Celebrate Recovery Gala Kempkers is a Fearless Follower who is currently enjoying her role as a Celebrate Recovery leader at Ridge Point. Gala shares a portion of her journey from brokenness to healing below.  I was having a conversation with a fellow RPCR (Ridge Point Celebrate Recovery) leader and after […]

Raised to Life and Jordan River Moments

This week a crowd of 400 people gathered around the banks of a pond in anticipation, to glimpse a holy and special moment. Out of the 400, 23 came forward to be baptized. 12 shared their stories and some declared what God had done to transform their doubt to faith while a few expressed their […]

Does your life feel like a puzzle?

During this week’s Rooted leader meeting, we asked the question “what do you love?” In response, one of the leaders shared an image that I believe shows clearly what Rooted is about. She said that she loves jigsaw puzzles. She loves putting the pieces together, patiently figuring how they fit together until she comes to […]

Ready to go on an Adventure with God?

 Imagine you want to go hiking. You have all your gear ready. You’ve packed your water and your food. There’s only one challenge. You have never hiked this trail before. You have a map but you are not sure how reliable your map is. You don’t want to miss the best sites and views. what […]

Mission Update: Zambia Child Sponsorship Story

One of the ways we walk alongside our friends and partner, Jubilee Centre, in Zambia, is through child sponsorship.  Did you know that Fearless Followers sponsor 173 children through Jubilee Centre? Fearless Followers sent 20 letters and 11 special gifts to their sponsored children this quarter which was the highest number of letters and gifts […]

Honduras/ Compassion Update

As Fearless Followers we take the Mission of Following Jesus and Making Him known seriously. We believe that making Jesus known means that we get to show others who Jesus is with our words and our actions. In fact, we believe that two of the markers of being a Fearless Follower are REACHING others with […]