Growing Up In El Salvador Research Paper

Growing up in El Salvador, gave me the opportunity to experience different churches, because my grandmother took us to the Alliance church, and mother used to go to the Pentecostal church, and my uncle attended the Baptist one. During the weekday my siblings and went to church with grandmother, on Sundays usually with my mom’s church, and sometimes, she gave us a choice where we wanted to go. She made it clear that we needed to go to church. In El Salvador we used to go to church times a week, the service was long and sometimes I felt it was too confusing, I remember they was not a separate class for the kids on weekdays only on Sunday. It was hard sometimes to understand the sermons. It was until my family and I moved to Canada that I really

It wasn’t until my late teens that I made a personal decision to become a Christian. I made the choice and got baptize. Not because I felt obligated, but because, I felt the need to have a relationship with God. My experience has help me understand that not everyone who is born and raise in a Christian home is a believer. Feeling the need to communicate with God, having the certainty that He is there to listen when you call him is simply inexplicable. During my journey of faith, I have felt the hand of God moving in my life in different circumstances, his faithfulness is always there. There was a time when I was grieving and I thought God had abandon me. But understanding that He does not leaves us takes a while, is our choice to listen to Him or not, and as I was grieving I was becoming more distant of Him. Until one day I felt his presence, and I just cried, I couldn’t talk, even if I wanted to. But I felt his hand, the heavy burden I had was gone in an instant, and I felt peace in my heart like never before. In the moment I understood that He was always there, it was me resisting to have a communication with him. I am grateful that God has allow me to serve him, also has provided me with the opportunity to study to know more about him. Being able to get tools to better serve in the ministry is something that I would never before would thing of doing. But He knows better, we just need to learn to listen to his