Personal Stories

These are our stories... of Worship, of Community, of Growth, of Service, of Generosity... the five core values we embrace as we are "maturing in the faith and being equipped to give our lives away." These are stories of how God is changing us, using us and growing us. Stories of how "changed lives change lives" and that "together is better"... of how we are continually being WOW!ed by God so that we are left "WithOut Words". We pray they will be an encouragement to you.



Letter To Levi - Part 1
Follow this beautiful story of caring for an orphan as one of our Fellowship families grows through the details of receiving a foster care child with special needs.





Letter To Levi - Part 2
Here's the second half of this moving story of Levi, and his journey into a new adoptive family at Fellowship.







Miracle in Franklin
A casual conversation becomes life changing as one family chooses to live beyond belief and gives an incredible gift to another. You don't want to miss this astounding story.





Conversations With God
Does God really speak to us? These four ladies believe so. Watch this moving video about how conversations about art, turn into conversations with God.





Longing For Heaven
The birth of the Farley's second daughter was a heartbreaking tragedy that turned into an amazing blessing. This emotional story will awaken in you a longing for Heaven.





Peru Team 2007
After the devastating earthquake that hit Peru in August of 2007, our church responded in an overwhelming way. A follow-up trip to visit our partner church in Comas allowed these travelers to witness God's mercy in the midst of tragedy.



Slovenia Trip 2007
A trip to Slovenia to teach English and build relationships with students encountered some unexpected roadblocks toward evangelism. Even still, powerful seeds of the gospel were planted, fertilized and nurtured.




Faith In Action With Both Hands
Lucille's house needed repair. And the Meyers family just adopted four kids from Moldova. See how a creative look at ministry changed all of their lives.





Fellowship To The World
This 2006 Global Outreach video shows that it really is "Not About Us" as we share personal stories from some in our body who have traveled to Nigeria, Peru, and Sudan.





Global Outreach 2006
Adoption, world missions, helping the needy... Take the blindfold off your eyes to see what we are doing and what we can do as a community committed to making a Global impact.




Painting Through the Storm
Pam Jones shares her moving testimony of God's great hand of mercy and grace and how the vehicle of art was the beautiful gift God gave her to work through her feelings of pain and loss.




Young Adults Live "Inverted" Lives
Go inside Fellowship's Inversion ministry of young adults who are committed to living out the mission of the gospel by exploring what it means to be servants to the community and the world.




Beyond Belief: Remembering Why...
This video compilation from the 2005 message series reminds us how many in our body have been affected as they have chosen to live out their faith in a way that truly is Beyond Belief.




Generational: Lead by Example
Meet Tom Carr, who learned to take his opportunities as a civilian just as seriously as his duties in the military and, by doing so, found freedom and life.





Generational: Sowing Seeds
Bible teacher RoseAnne Coleman found that the seeds planted in her life by Miss Helen are ones that will help grow generations to come.






Reaching Out To Biloxi
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, many of us decided to move out of our comfort zone and reach out to a world in need.






Generous: Baseball Theology Put into Practice
Eric & Julie Martin discovered the truth of God's word, lived out, over time... and found more financial margin than they had ever experienced before by investing in His kingdom, not their own.




Generous: Finding Freedom
"For 20 years, Pam had a budget … I was the budget buster”. But by owning his mistakes and pledging to really do something about it together as a team, Ken Munday and his family found strength, joy and freedom.



Global Outreach 2005
On many foreign soils, the church struggles in spiritual 'desert-like' conditions. God has blessed us with 'deep wells' and called us to serve.






Tsunami Relief
See what happened when Angela Hart, a Christian therapist in Franklin, answered 'the call' of an email she received one day shortly after the devastating tsunami hit southeast Asia.




Unforeseen Harvest
Seth Conley was a passionate young artist on a manifest journey void of direction.  He was invited to interact with the Gospel of John in an unusual way and His journey found it's purpose. His life was forever changed.




15 Miles from Here
Missions work does not always have to take us overseas. There are many opportunities to serve right here in our own community. This is the story of the beginning of our church’s ongoing involvement with the women at the Nashville Rescue Mission.



A Visual Exploration of Redemption
As the introduction to our first photography exhibition, this piece offers a look into the hearts of three photographers from our body who were given the challenge to capture “redemption” on film.




Abide in Me
Dr. Ted Leichner, an elder here at Fellowship, made a decision to follow God's leading, leaving home and family, which eventually led him to Iraq.






Apologetics in Peru
Reid Monaghan, Dale Fincher and Mike Vogt travel to Comas, Peru to discuss how to understand our faith well enough to defend it against objections in the culture.





Changed Lives Change Lives: The Foss Family
Robert and Tiffany moved to Nashville a few years ago as a culmination of their plan... but God had an entirely different plan in mind for them.






Comas, Peru
This piece highlights our strategic partnership with Pastor Mario Perez and the Missionary Alliance Church in Comas, Peru.







Community... It's About LIFE!
Lowrie and Emily Webber reflect on what their community group has meant to them. They have risked — invested deeply — and have seen the rewards.






From Success to Significance...
Former corporate executive and entrepreneur, Dick Gygi, tell his story about how God has called him to move from success to significance and to equip others to do the same.





G3: The Hands & Feet of Christ
Beyond Belief living is about the very nature of God being formed in us and expressed through us, as we learn to live more Globally in commitment, more Generational in focus and more Generously than we could ever have imagined.



Global: ALARM Ministries
Celestin Musekura's story of resolve to raise up Biblical Christians in the midst of great personal tragedy in Rwanda.







Global: Project Smile
Dr. Philip Kemp was on a journey but he had no idea where he was going.  But God gave him a platform he never dreamed he would have simply by asking, “God, what are you going to do today?”.




Journey to Freedom: A Visual Response to Galatians
This was the introduction to our first public art exhibition and a window into the heart of four artists who worked to visually capture their response to our study of the book of Galatians.




Leitnohm, Sudan
Our relationship with the people of Leitnohm is changing us. As we learn how to embrace this oppressed culture, we have seen the joy of Christ reflected back to us in ways that have touched the depths of our souls.



Serve Someone
A look at how the members of one Community Group joined together to help a struggling family in the midst of a very difficult situation.





The Birth of Community
A look at the genesis of true community in a group that is learning that "together is better".






The McMurray Family – Giving Their Lives Away
Matt and Gigi McMurray were missionaries sent from this church to serve orphaned children in Honduras. This brief video provides a glimpse into their four years there.




The Negleys' Extreme Days
An honest look at a family who is confronting their busy lifestyle and asking, “How do we best honor Christ in these 'Extreme Days'”?





Why Community?
Community is a core value of Fellowship Bible Church. This is one story of how that value works itself out in the context of our body. Together is better!