Faith Background

[Mickey's_Girl]

Thanks, Sojourner. ;-) Former Calvinists rock, too, esp. when they're you!

I think Converts Anonymous is my favorite part of the phorum...do I know anyone else on here? Message me later if you can.

MG

[RachelB87]

I wasn't raised anything. I just felt compelled to join the Catholic faith at the age of 16 because only God knows why. He has great plans for me, I guess.

[OpusDei]

(PLEASE excuse my spelling, english is not my first language).

I was baptised in the Afrikaaner Dutch Reformed Church( in South Africa), a ultra conservative Calvinist church.

Although when I converted to Catholisicm, I was attending a Fundamentalist church.

[St. Catherine]

Raised Mormon. Converted in 1999. Any other Mormon converts here?

[akamarymag]

Im a Lutheran convert. I just bearly began being a hardcore lutheran when it came time for me to be confirmed int he lutheran church ( im 15). Then i ended up leaving the Lutheran church and now im an about month old catholic! RCIA rocks! I love the sacraments of the church espeshaly the eucharist...( pray that my family converts 2!) -God Bless-

[daugher-of-Mary]

I was pretty much raised in various degrees of the Annabaptist church (yup, spending a good number of years in cape dresses and bonnets), but never officially apart of any of those churches since they do not believe in infant baptism, and I became Catholic before reaching "baptising age" in the Annabaptist church.

[McKenzie]

My family started attending a Baptist church first, then we left, then another Baptist church. After that, we were nothing for quite a long time. Finally, we started attending a Pentecostal church. Then we left. I became agnostic. Then pagan (I worshipped the ancient Egyptian gods. Totally serious.) Then, we almost became Mormon. Back to the Pentecostal church. Visited a Baptist church a while. Then, back to Pentecostal. Finally, Catholic.

[1337 k4th0l1x0r]

McK, did your whole family become Catholic or just you?

[McKenzie]

Mum and I did.

We don't live with dad, and there are no other children.

[Apotheoun]

As a former Methodist, I'm happy to see that nearly a quarter of the converts in the poll are from the Methodist Church.

[RonRule]

My great grandfather, grandfather, and dad were all preachers.

My dad left the American Baptists and started his own non-denominational church, Neighborhood Bible Fellowship about 25 years ago as a result of a growing college campus ministry. The church borrowed many traditions from the Plymouth Brethren movment: weekly and open "breaking of bread" service, plurality of elder leadership, expository preaching, etc. I grew up in this church. Even preached a guest sermon once on alcohol and sobriety.

When my wife and I moved to Kansas City last spring, we began attending an Anglican church that left the ECUSA, but is still a part of the Communion. We still go there.

[sweetpea316]

Wow this is an old thread! It's from before my time, so I guess I'll answer now. Yeah, I've grown up Lutheran. I still am technically...who knows how much longer. I'd rather be Catholic.

[tojo]

Hi, this is my first post on phatmass.

I was raised non-religious and became a Oneness aka "Apostolic" (non-trinitarian) Pentecostal when I was 14, and was baptized in the name of Jesus at 15.

When I was 18 I left them for a nondenominational Evangelical Protestant church, and was validly baptized at 19. I entered RCIA last New Year's (very late) and entered the Catholic Church at the Easter Vigil Mass this spring.

There isn't by chance any other ex-Oneness/ Apostolic Pentecostals that hang around in here (United Pentecostal Church, Pentecostal Assemblies of the World, Assemblies of the Lord Jesus Christ, etc)? I've never heard of anyothers becoming Catholic, it seems few enough become Trinitarian Protestants......

[RonRule]

[quote name='tomasio127' date='Sep 11 2005, 12:59 PM']There isn't by chance any other ex-Oneness/ Apostolic Pentecostals that hang around in here (United Pentecostal Church, Pentecostal Assemblies of the World, Assemblies of the Lord Jesus Christ, etc)? I've never heard of anyothers becoming Catholic, it seems few enough become Trinitarian Protestants......
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I don't know, but I do know that Tim Staples mentions the movement in his "journey home". He said it was popular at Jimmy Swagart Bible College and talks about the informal debates he had on the issue.

[Nathan]

I was baptized a Presbyterian as a baby, but grew up in a pretty non-religious household. Liberal secular Protestant, I guess you could say -- we celebrated Christmas, but it never had anything to do with Christianity per se. My dad, who apparently used to be quite the fervent Protestant in his day -- he almost became a minister -- now is pretty much an atheist/agnostic: "We're all just a bunch of beaver dam monkey's on a ball of dirt," he said to me recently while dropping me off at my parish for Sunday Mass! My mom, however, believes in Jesus and reads the Bible frequently but doesn't attend any Church -- she doesn't believe that she needs organized Christianity. She is quite pleased that I'm converting to Catholicism, though; she has long told me that I needed faith in my life (I was the classic atheist in my teens and well into my early twenties).

That's me.