Were you a "Born-In", or were you "Converted"?

by Warlock 18 years ago 75 Replies latest 18 years ago jw friends

Warlock 18 years ago

I was converted in the early 1980's.
Warlock

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dedpoet 18 years ago

I was a convert, getting involved in 1991, and baptised in 1992, at the age of 41 (old enough to have more sense)

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dobbie 18 years ago

i was duped oops sorry converted, in the early nineties, obviously i was just a young lass

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Blueblades 18 years ago

Converted. Contacted in 1969, baptized in1970.
Blueblades

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tan 18 years ago

I was a young girl of 4 when my mother was introduced to the witnesses.

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Lady Lee 18 years ago

We really need another category - RAISED IN
Many of us had parents who joined sometime after we were born. Tan above was 4 so she pretty much was raised entirely in it as someone who was born into it.
I was 11 so I had some experience going to church and doing many things the JWs said were wrong and I had to give up - like holidays and birthdays and making Mother's Day cards etc

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babygirl75 18 years ago

I was born into the religion...left in 2001.

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Tuesday 18 years ago

BORN-IN; left around 2000.

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bigwilly 18 years ago

Born in, third generation on both sides of the family

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Alligator Wisdom 18 years ago

Raised in. First stepped into a KH at the age of 5 when my mother started going to the meetings while studying with a JW.
Alligator Wisdom (aka Brother NOT Exerting Vigorously)

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