As a child, my parents didn't know which religion to follow. Subsequently, I have a baptismal record that states I'm Catholic. After that, there was the Baptist church we would go to with my paternal grandmother, and still I would go to Catholic church with my maternal grandparents. After a few more church changes, my parents began to follow the Jehovah's Witnesses. Eventually, they stopped going to services anywhere. Needless to say, although most of the churches we went to were Christian based, I took a little from each one, and have settled my beliefs that way. Raising my own children, I felt this was not the way to bring them up... "Believe this group. No, wait, believe this one. On second thought, there is this other religion we should believe in." I decided to let my sons choose which church they wanted to follow. I've always told them that no matter what they choose, I'll stand by them and support them. I've done this by bringing them to services at many different churches, so they may learn as much about religion as they want or need to. In the process, I've learned more about myself and my own faith, but never really followed any of it. I had to go through some hard times in my life before I was ready to accept faith in my heart. And the really strange thing is my mind kept telling me to do "what is right". I was searcing the internet to learn more to help me in my faith and I felt it was a sign when I found the ULC doctrine that states nearly the same thing. A sign that now that I have found my faith again, it was time to do more and help others find their faith as well. And now that I've given you 40 years of my life in three short paragraphs, you basically know now why I chose to become an ordained minister through ULC.
As a child, my parents didn't know which religion to follow. Subsequently, I have a baptismal record that states I'm Catholic. After that, there was the Baptist church we would go to with my paternal grandmother, and still I would go to Catholic church with my maternal grandparents. After a few more church changes, my parents began to follow the Jehovah's Witnesses. Eventually, they stopped going to services anywhere. Needless to say, although most of the churches we went to were Christian based, I took a little from each one, and have settled my beliefs that way. Raising my own children, I felt this was not the way to bring them up... "Believe this group. No, wait, believe this one. On second thought, there is this other religion we should believe in." I decided to let my sons choose which church they wanted to follow. I've always told them that no matter what they choose, I'll stand by them and support them. I've done this by bringing them to services at many different churches, so they may learn as much about religion as they want or need to. In the process, I've learned more about myself and my own faith, but never really followed any of it. I had to go through some hard times in my life before I was ready to accept faith in my heart. And the really strange thing is my mind kept telling me to do "what is right". I was searcing the internet to learn more to help me in my faith and I felt it was a sign when I found the ULC doctrine that states nearly the same thing. A sign that now that I have found my faith again, it was time to do more and help others find their faith as well. And now that I've given you 40 years of my life in three short paragraphs, you basically know now why I chose to become an ordained minister through ULC.