Well there's not much to tell brother, and I don't want to hijack the thread, so I'll keep it brief. I was actually saved about 30 years ago while I was attending a secular college. I was not saved in a church, and I was not raised in a church, however I did have a little Catholic influence as a child since my mother was raised Catholic. However my immediate family was not religious and my weekends as a youngster were spent mostly with my family on beach. Thankfully, I was blessed with a father and mother who loved each other very much and I can honestly say we were closer than many church-going families I have seen over the years.

As a babe in Christ, I was baptized along with one of my college buddies and his wife who were Methodists (!). We actually had to go to another church to get baptized because there was no baptistry at their church! Years later after graduating I moved away and began praying for God to lead me to a Bible-believing church. I was highly ignoarant of the scriptures, but I knew I was saved and I had a tremendous thirst for a knowledge of the Bible. At this time I was visiting different churches, carrying a "Living Bible" and speaking with many diverse denominations, and even cults like the JW's and Mormons (!). One day, someone knocked on MY door and invited me to an Independent Baptist Church with an auditorium that seated about 1,100. I loved it, plain preaching, not too big, lots of soul winning and not too fancy (they had wooden pews without padding until the early 90's, lol). Eventually I enrolled myself in Bible courses there and after a few hundred hours of personal study I ended up teaching adult Sunday School for around 10 years. It's been a great journey.