What type of churches did you go to before your conversion to the Catholic Church?

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For me-my Dad was Catholic but non-praciting and my Mom Baptist-so I went to both until I was 20 or so… then I went to some Spanish charismatic churches for a while and then was non-religious while at the same time going to a mega-church lol…

But my conversion really started in 2002-2005 when I was in Mexico, but then I drifted away for about 4 years then came back Home to Mother Church in the Fall of 2009 and now I’m in RCIA-for Sacrament of Confirmation…
 
my dad was also a non-practicing catholic and my mom was lutheran, but they both converted to the episcopal church and i was raised in the episcopal church. i learned to appreciate the holy communion and was drawn to the Catholic church from a young age, however, i did not convert until 3 years ago in my 50’s. i attended a few non-denominational churches and returned to the episcopal church briefly before converting to the Catholic church. i never had any interest in being baptist, methodist, presbyterian.
whenever i attended the nondenominational churches, after a month or so, i always realized what was missing - holy communion or the Mass. the Real Presence. so after falling away from the church for 20 years, i began studying about Catholicism and converted in 2008. my big regret is all of the Masses that i missed for 20 years. my dad’s sister was a Catholic and my uncle and cousin. my cousin left the Catholic church and became a baptist in her 20’s, but i knew that my aunt and uncle loved being Catholic.
 
jason3477 said:
For me-my Dad was Catholic but non-praciting and my Mom Baptist-so I went to both until I was 20 or so… then I went to some Spanish charismatic churches for a while and then was non-religious while at the same time going to a mega-church lol…

But my conversion really started in 2002-2005 when I was in Mexico, but then I drifted away for about 4 years then came back Home to Mother Church in the Fall of 2009 and now I’m in RCIA-for Sacrament of Confirmation…
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I’ve been to more churches in my lifetime… When I was a wee little tyke my parents took me to an “Evangelical Church,” basically a little protestant church in a strip mall. That was probably my favorite as a kid. Then we went to a community church. Then we went to a southern baptist church. I guess that’s around the time my dad got into calvinism and we started going to a presbyterian church. My dad got his PhD. in divinity (I think) from trinity evangelical seminary and we moved to another Presbyterian church in houston with mostly a hispanic population, where he served as pastor. That was the church where I was baptized. After a while my mom thought me and my brothers should go to a church with a good youth program; so we started going to a non-denominational church. That wasn’t very good because it was more of a joel-osteen type deal so we started going back to the southern baptist church that we were going to before my dad turned us presbyterian. At this time my dad started up his own presbyterian church in his area consisting mostly of a few families and two of his best friends, and my mom. So I started going there and to the baptist church at the same time. When I got into college, I would go to a Bible church occasionally, but it was several miles from my dorm and all I had was my bike. After a while I stopped going to church and decided I was agnostic. I didn’t start going to church again until my junior year; actually that’s when I started reading about Catholicism, it changed my perspective on Christianity. I wasn’t comfortable with the idea of being Catholic at the time so I started attending lutheran churches, first WELS and then LCMS, which I was more comfortable with. My dad grew up in the ELCA and didn’t like Lutherans, so he wasn’t happy about this. During this time I couldn’t stop reading about Catholicism. Eventually I decided to go to my first mass. For my second mass I went to an Easter Vigil. After that experience I was more or less hooked. I’ve been going to the Catholic Church for over two years (almost three!) and I came into the Church this past Easter. I intend to stay in the Catholic Church until the day that I die. Aside from the fact that it’s the one true Church, which is the real reason I’m a Catholic, I really like having some consistency in my beliefs for once, as well as a sense of community, culture, and family, a strong worldview, a real spirituality, and a connection to this rock of a Church that spans centuries and continents alike. I may sound biased but I think I am 100% better off now than I was during all that time. I am certainly more at peace and much happier.

Wow that was a long story. Who’s next?
 
Baptized Catholic, but no one bothered to tell me.
Attended my mother’s episcopal church until college, when I took a homeless guy to the after-church coffee hour, and wasn’t met with great enthusiasm. I realize now I was asking a lot of my fellow parishioners, but anyway, I quit attending for about 10 years. Probably I was just looking for an excuse.
God intervened, and I returned to the episcopal church, then started at the Foursquare church, where there were some great pastors. Then bounced around awhile, and settled on a non-denominational church.
Married a Catholic in that church, who later decided he wanted to attend the Catholic church. so I figured it’s all the same God, and joined RCIA.
God is very merciful, when I went to join the church, I learned that I had already been baptized in it 50 years earlier. No more bouncing around.
 
PbloPicasso said:
Church of Christ.
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Hello Pblo. I too was raised and dunked in the so called one and only “Church of Christ”.

But I saw through their inconsist logic, and tired of worshiping a paper and ink idol and started worshipping God.

The preacher in the CofC where I was raised actually called the bible “God”. And of course anything not explictly demanded in the bible was forbidden.

As soon as I got ouit from under my folks roof I left the CofC and became Catholic.
 
andrewstx said:
Hello Pblo. I too was raised and dunked in the so called one and only “Church of Christ”.

But I saw through their inconsist logic, and tired of worshiping a paper and ink idol and started worshipping God.

The preacher in the CofC where I was raised actually called the bible “God”. And of course anything not explictly demanded in the bible was forbidden.

As soon as I got ouit from under my folks roof I left the CofC and became Catholic.
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Welcome home then. That “dunking” was your first baptism, yes? Then that meant more than my dunking there. I was baptized Catholic and thought is was wrong most of my life. My mom was a non-practicing Christian and hated the Catholic Church teaching. Growing up I went to whatever church she brought us to but never really knew exactly what it was. However, I do remember one church that later in life I discovered was a Church of Christ, which made since to me during that time of my life.

coctocatholic.com

Here’s a group of coverts from the Church of Christ. Maybe you’re already a member?

Welcome Home. And Glad to meet you.
 
I was raised unchurched and was intoduced to Jesus in a Four Square Pentecostal church where I was baptised by immersion. Years later I married a United Methodist and joined his church to raise kids all in one church, but was not happy their. After being challenged to study early church history to aid my teaching in the UM church, I came home to the Catholic Church Christmas 2004 and will be here forever.
 
my dad is a non-practicing Catholic (seems to be a common theme, what’s the deal?) mom was raised going to the church of the nazarene on and off. she calls herself a Christian but is not baptized and attends church irregularly.
Growing up my mom took me to different churches off and on, Lutheran, Assembly of God (for the longest), Baptist, non-denom. I went to a Church of God camp.
When I started dating my husband at 16 I started going to his non-denom church with him and his family (his dad is the administrative pastor). We became members and married there. A year later I got baptized there. A year after that we started going to the Catholic church.
 
I had been a member of an independent Church of Christ, a United Methodist church, and a Church of Christ in Christian Union.
 
I am not Catholic, though I don’t rule out the possibility that I might be some day… but if that were to happen, I think I would clash heavily with the traditionalist faction.

My church history includes (in chronological order):

Baptist (GARBC)
Christian (Disciples of Christ)
Open Bible
Baptist (ABC)
Assembles of God

Despite the history, I am probably closest in doctrine to Anglican or Lutheran.
 
Question: What type of churches did you go to before your conversion to the Catholic Church?

Answer: non-Catholic churches :rotfl: I must be in a silly mood. :yup:

Real Answer: lots of various non-liturgical type protestant churches growing up + as a younger adult Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church for around a year & the Greek Orthodox for many years & Genuine Greek Orthodox for a few months.

The Papacy brought me “Home2Rome”
 
Both my parents were raised Baptist, and I spent the first 12 years of my life in the same church they were raised in. It is an Independent Fundamental Baptist Church that is a voluntary member of the GARBC. After that church started to become more and more steeped in legalism, we moved to a non-denominational church that mostly follows Baptist doctrine. My parents are still members of this church.
 
I’m not Catholic yet, but seriously considering it.

I was raised as a Pentecostol-leaning Non-Denominational. At 17, I turned into a Wiccan. A few years later and I drift between Catholic, Orthodox and Anglican. Mostly Orthodox and Catholic.
 
I was raised in the Church of the Nazarene, and went there until I was a freshman in high school. That’s when I started going to the Catholic church, and converted when I was 18.
 
Izdaari said:
I am not Catholic, though I don’t rule out the possibility that I might be some day… but if that were to happen, I think I would clash heavily with the traditionalist faction.

My church history includes (in chronological order):

Baptist (GARBC)
Christian (Disciples of Christ)
Open Bible
Baptist (ABC)
Assembles of God

Despite the history, I am probably closest in doctrine to Anglican or Lutheran.
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you have been on a real journey! what a background. i predict someday the Holy Spirit will bring you to the Catholic church. 🙂
 
I grew up in the church of Christ - my grandparents are very involved (grandpa is an elder). My mother drifted away, but my grandparents were still very influential on me, and I still feel a very close familial type connection and love to people in the church of Christ.

As I got older and went to college, got married, had kids, we just jumped around to all kinds of churches - Episcopal, Lutheran, Anglican, church of Christ, Christian/Community. Fortunately, my kids were both baptized as infants in the Episcopal and Anglican church so I take much comfort having done that. I am going to be going to RCIA next year as my husband and I agreed, and he will be discerning over the next year and a half or so if he is going to be joining with me and the children. 😃

I see there are some others who come from a church of Christ background. I think because my family is so involved, and I do love them so very much, that I might take one of the previous comments a bit personally. Please still love them and speak kindly, even when in disagreement. Although I have experienced many hurtful and negative people in the church of Christ (and, as I am beginning to get more into the Catholic community, I see it is a universal problem of humanity and not just Protestants :)), many of the people are so loving and really are seeking after God. And hey, they are one of the only Protestant denominations to think baptism actually really does something! 😉
 
Born Catholic,
left and became a Pagan/Wiccan - attended no church of course,
after 5 years, became a Spiritualist - attended a Spiritual Church (yes they have Churches - well halls really, but officially recognized as a Church)

Finally, many, many years later, Catholic again, praise God!😃
 
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