Editor’s note: Third in a series of articles about lives changed through Triad’s first Life Action Summit revival conference

Faith Bibb certainly looked the part of someone who had their spiritual life together and had no doubts about the trajectory or purpose of their life.

As one of the members of Triad’s women’s singing group, “Everlasting,” she had sung God’s praises and given testimony to Him countless times in song.

But in a life story that calls to mind what God told the prophet Samuel during his mission to find Israel’s first king — “God sees not as man sees, for man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart (1 Samuel 16:7)” — she knew what God only knew so used the Life Action Summit to take an important step of faith.

“At the age of 6, I ‘prayed the prayer’ for salvation in a little country church I attended with my grandparents,” Bibb recalls of a childhood spent in church and Christian school.

“But on the second Sunday of the summit, when revivalist Steve Canfield was speaking about the ‘fruit life’ something changed,” she says. “He got to his last point and asked, ‘Is the Holy Spirit giving you an inward peace and assurance so that you know you’re a child of God?’ and I knew I was missing that piece. I looked saved but wasn’t.

“I took the walk to the back of the Worship Center that morning on trembling legs, intent on finding someone to pray with me and did — someone I’ve known since middle school, who knew my background and grew up in a similar way. I felt such a peace after I obeyed the Holy Spirit that day. Now I know and can truly say I am a child of God without any doubts.”

Acknowledging she sometimes falls short herself, Bibb says she tries hard to keep the everyday pressures of life and distractions from keeping her from setting aside time for “one-on-one” worship with Jesus Christ. ““My faith is definitely stronger now than before the summit,” she adds, “but I’m still a work in progress.”

The business office coordinator for a Winston-Salem dental practice, Bibb became part of the Triad family in 2003. Since then, she’s been a member of the choir, participated in Christmas and Easter dramas, toured with Everlasting, and serves as a Checkpoint hostess for the Kids Street Children’s Ministry.

She and her husband, Danny, attend the Linzy Escue Sunday School class. She is mother to daughters, Hailey and Meredith, stepmom to Danny’s daughter, Emily, and is also mom, she jokes, to “a spoiled dog named Bentley.”

As for her church, Bibb says, “There are so many reasons I love Triad, from Pastor Rob (Decker’s) teaching over the last 13 years to the way the congregation has a way of welcoming you in and making you feel like family.”

She says the church also has played a key role in her faith through members whose encouragement and support has fostered the atmosphere necessary for spiritual growth and maturity.

“It’s so important to have people around you who will support you and be a shoulder to offer encouragement or sometimes look you straight in the eye and tell you to get it together — friends who will share a verse or a song because they love you and thought of you,” Bibb says. “Don’t be afraid to reach out to those people and ask them for help or be one to someone else. Believe me, it helps!”

The women of Everlasting are part of that support system.

“We’re definitely a family,” Bibb says of Everlasting songmates Melissa Beck, Wendy Fulp, Heather Still, Kim Hittell and Renee Huffman.

“One of the things I enjoy most is knowing that anytime we get together to practice, we’re going to laugh! Of course, we might also cry — it just depends on what’s happened that week in our lives. We share sorrows, joys, tears, laughter and a deep love for Jesus that binds us all together. I have found in these women great encouragers and cheerleaders and am thankful for each one of them.”