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rrammfcitktturjsp012006
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| Joined: | Thu Nov 1st, 2007 |
| Location: | Midland, Texas USA |
| Posts: | 42 |
| First Name: | Anne | | Gender: | Female | | Faith History: | C of C, Wicca, Satanist, Atheist, Agnostic, Baptist, Unity, and ... |
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Posted: Sun Nov 4th, 2007 01:44 am |
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To All,
I was reading another post and felt compelled to share my journey to the faith. As I am limited on time and sleep I will divide this into parts. I hope that the Moderators will understand. Real names are changed becuase of some of the information. They will be designated by asterisks.
As I could not fit my religious affiliations in the subject line I will state them here. Catholic, Church of Christ, Wicca, Satanism, Southern Baptist, Roman Catholic, Messianic Gentile, Unity Church, and finally Roman Catholic.
My story begins on January 2, 1980 at Daveo City in the Phillipines when I was born. Shortly after my birth my older brother died of starvation and at 3 monthes I only weighed around 7-8 pounds. My parents adopted me out and I was adopted by the Smiths*. They adopted another little boy and at age 2 we moved to Lubbock, Texas.
From age 2-5 we lived with the Smiths. During this time they had 2 natural children, so there were four in all. We were subjected to verbal abuse, physical abuse, and sexual abuse. The only light that I had in my life at this time was music. At age 5 they divorced, and the little boy that was adopted Adam* and I were shuffled into the CPS system. It would be when I was 23 years old I found out that they were Catholics though non attending Catholics. I do not remember God ever being discussed in this household.
During our soujourn at the Smiths household I witnessed my younger brother being abused by a grandparent and was powerless to do anything about it. It was at this time that I learned how to hate and learned not to trust anyone even myself. I knew at this time I loved my brother and felt that I had betrayed him by not being able to help him and stand powerless in my parents arms as they held me back. I learned to not trust in myself. These attitudes would have much to do with my later life patterns as well.
At age 7 both Adam and I were adopted by our present parents, the Rogers*. They were Church of Christ. That was when I first learned that there was a God and he had a son named Jesus. I also learned much of the doctrine that goes along with the Church of Christ. I remember at the age of 10 asking about who goes to heaven and to hell as one of my friends were not Church of Christ. I was told that if you were not Church of Christ you would not go to heaven. I was devasted and could not understand for this friend of mine at age 10 was the best friend that I could ever have and if anyone ought to make heaven it ought to be her. This was the last straw that broke the camel's back. I resolved to look outside of Church of Christ to see if there was anything that I could believe in, of course I did not tell my family. I was in second grade at the time and had very limited resources. In time I found that the Church of Christ had come from another denomination and I determined to trace the denominations to the Source, and that source was the Roman Catholic Church. At this time I ran into a word and that word was Inquisition. Bear in mind at the time I was in second grade and did not know how to do thorough research. When I saw that this was in the name of God, my heart was saddened. If this was what God was about, I was done with Him. I knew in my heart I could and never would be Christain. At this time I doubted if he existed and all. Saddened and sickened I began to look outside of Christainity and began to learn how to lie to my parents, for if they ever found out what I was doing, I knew I faced their wrath. And in time I would and much worse, but I am getting ahead of myself.
The next period of my life will cover ages 10-22. As time restrains me and I need sleep and my precious son has fallen asleep I too will follow soon. I will post the rest later. Thanks for your patience and understanding.
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Ken Follis
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| Joined: | Thu Oct 25th, 2007 |
| Location: | San Antonio, Texas USA |
| Posts: | 40 |
| First Name: | Ken | | Gender: | Male | | Faith History: | Charismatic Episcopal Church; Roman Catholic Church (1999) |
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Posted: Sun Nov 4th, 2007 10:03 am |
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Anne,
Wonderful and amazing story! I look forward to hearing more. I was born and raised in the Lubbock area and even pastored nearby. The Church of Christ is very popular in the area. It seems every town in the panhandle has a Dairy Queen and a COC, no matter how many folks live in the town.
Ken
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Jer. 6:16 "Stand, Look, Ask and Walk!"
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Credo Catholic
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| Joined: | Sat May 5th, 2007 |
| Location: | Greenville, South Carolina USA |
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| First Name: | Marsha | | Gender: | Female | | Faith History: | Baptist, Catholic |
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Posted: Sun Nov 4th, 2007 12:26 pm |
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| Thank Anne for sharing your beginning journey. What a rocky start, I just want to cry out to heaven for children in that situation. I'm looking forward to reading your next installment! God bless you and your family.
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rrammfcitktturjsp012006
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| Joined: | Thu Nov 1st, 2007 |
| Location: | Midland, Texas USA |
| Posts: | 42 |
| First Name: | Anne | | Gender: | Female | | Faith History: | C of C, Wicca, Satanist, Atheist, Agnostic, Baptist, Unity, and ... |
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Posted: Mon Nov 5th, 2007 12:41 am |
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Ken,
Yep thats one thing I have notied about Texas, where you can find a DQ chances are within 5 miles of it there is a COC. Some of my good memories of my childhood are after church ice cream snacks lol.
Credo,
Yes it was a rocky start and sad to say it gets much much worse before it gets better, but looking back I see the hand of God in all of this. I am thankful that he pulled me and called me, becuase without him I should be dead several times over.
Thanks guys for reading this.
May the peace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you always.
Anne
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