My experience with Jesus Christ

I was born in New York City on May 6, 1931. I grew up on Long Island with a brother who was 5 years my junior and 2 loving parents. Although my father seemed a bit distant from me, I seemed to inherit a love of sports from my father and a compassionate heart from my mother.

However, despite my mother’s heritage, I grew up with a phlegmatic personality. This meant that I was quite shy, reclusive, afraid of people, cautious, trustworthy but never wanting to get involved, an observer of life, and usually did as I was told. As a result of this character mold, other children used to pick on me, which in turn made me fear other people even more. And my church experience at that time was mostly negative, even though my parents were pretty active churchgoers, and I felt pretty close to God.

This phlegmatic personality stayed with me throughout my college career, where I graduated from Roanoke College in Virginia with a bachelor’s degree in Political Science in 1954. However, I felt closer to the church, because most of my friends were students. pre-ministerial. .

Four years after graduating from college, I got married for the first time and started going to church steadily a few months later, where I was probably reborn. My calling at the time was that of an accountant with a degree from LaSalle Extension University in Chicago. However, he was still a phlegmatic.

My transformational experience occurred when I visited a nudist camp a few years later, which turned my life 180º by giving me the freedom (without clothes), for the first time, to really be myself, which made me a person much more sensitive to people. As a result of my new people-oriented orientation, I received my Master’s Degree in Religious Education from New York Theological Seminary in New York City in 1968, became active in politics, began organizing discussion groups, began a ministry in jail and started many other people. oriented activities. It is interesting to note here that as I participated in more and more strip camp activities, I noticed less and less of the nudity (both male and female) of individuals and more and more of their distinctive personality traits.

Eleven years after my marriage, my first wife died in open heart surgery. After this, I publicized my strip camp activity, mainly through my church, and the response was mostly positive among my close associates, though extremely negative among others. But people seemed to grow as a result of this revelation. In fact, a professional writer used me as one of her positive characters in one of her books as a result of my revelation. I also found that mentioning my activities at strip camp opened others up to being much more honest with each other about their most intimate lives.

I married again four years after the death of my first wife. She is Argentine. After about 8 years living in the United States, we moved to Argentina to be with my wife’s family. Moving to Argentina, I basically gave up my accounting career and started teaching English to adults, which in turn turned into many business and personal counseling sessions, accelerated by my training at Stephen Ministry (counseling). This turned out to be the greatest blessing for me, because I learned many things that I never would have learned if I had stayed in New York. In fact, I felt that this type of work is probably one of the most important jobs one can have in the world because the participants can learn so much more about each other’s culture than they would otherwise. But I also learned a lot about the general business environment. This is what I have been doing most of the time I have been in Argentina. I am now semi-retired and have written a book called “The Church Library of Christian Concerns and Solutions” and it has been published on the Internet and can be purchased online through http://www.authorhouse.com/bookstore. The chapters of this book have already been published on the Internet and have received a total readership of more than 15,000 people.

Currently my greatest love, as far as ministry is concerned, is in the Ministry of Reconciliation. I have already done some of this in discussion groups on Predestination, the Vietnam War, the Purpose of the United Nations, with someone who was wrongly accused of being a communist, and possibly helping my current church and its Board have a better communication. skills with each other. They were all quite successful. I now hope that the present book I am now writing entitled “A Discussion Guide to Christian Concerns” has the same purpose. And I owe all this experience that I have had to my acceptance of Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior earlier in my life.