Personal Reflection

I have grown up in a Christian home but it wasn't until my junior year of high school when I was at Hume Lake with my youth group that I dedicated my life to being a disciple for Christ. That following summer I went on my first mission trip to Haiti to serve at an orphanage and shortly after returning home I decided to get baptized. My faith was put to the test when my family decided to move from Santa Barbara to Pennsylvania during my senior year. My dad moved there six months early while my mom, my brother and I stayed back and lived in my best friends small guest house so we could finish the school year. My world was completely flipped and nothing was going the way I planned but I knew that I could trust in God in whatever situation he put

self-reflect on who I am as a person as well as opening me up to more career goals that match my

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Born and raised in Marion, Iowa and into an evangelical church, my parents “Baby Dedicated” my life to christ. At age 5 my family moved to New Covenant Bible Church. When I was young I didn't think much of church, it was just something you did and was merely going through the motions. But when I hit middle school my parents made me go to church every Wednesday and Sunday. Key phrase, made me. At this point in my life I didn't like church, at all. As I grew older, I wanted to be at church less and less. And I dreaded going every time Sunday morning rolled around. I had the mindset that the world had more to offer me than Christ did. And so I made excuses and put up fights and soon I rarely went to church. My family went but I stayed

This reflection will discuss personal diffidence and how it has influenced my academic studies, including my practice within placement settings. Gibbs reflective cycle (Gibbs, 1998) has been utilised as it illustrates a clear structure for the process of reflection. To conclude this reflection will draw together the themes which have emerged and highlight a clear action for future learning that will be used in order to enhance my future practice.

Ever since I was a young boy, my family would pile into our old 15-passenger van and drive to church each and every Sunday, without fail. I didn't really understand it at first, it was just something I had to do. When I was around 6 years old, my mother encouraged me to accept Jesus Christ as my lord and savior. I hardly understood what it meant, but I went through with it, much to my mother’s excitement. Years passed, and my understanding grew. Up until I was around 13 years old, my faith had no correlation to my actions. I could recite bible verses for hours, yet I couldn't say what any of them meant. That all changed one year at Camp Selah, a Then, in the year 2014, my faith took a turn for the worst. I’d had a testing first year of high

I was born into the church. My parents were both Christians, so were their parents, and so forth. When I was seven, I was baptized at my childhood church. Somewhere along the way, I stopped attending church and grew distant from it, even grew resentful towards the Christian Church at one point. It was until my Junior year of high school that I reentered my walk with God after a life-altering missions trip. Then, I became incredibly involved with my church. I joined a youth group and bible group, I watched kids at my church, whether it be Sunday school, AWANA or VBS, and I began to mentor my peers a few years younger than me. Since then, I have developed a deeper relationship with God, and I'm learning to trust Him more and more each day. As

However, over the years, my faith began to wane. I don’t know If I always doubted my religion, but slowly over the years I began to slowly slip away from my religious upbringing. This all culminated in a youth camp my church held when I was around thirteen years old. During this youth camp, we were scheduled to do all sorts of service work and spiritual experiences. I had been told for years that this camp was where people finally “experienced” God, and where people finally saw God’s impact in their lives. While I appreciated the service work I got to do for others, I never had any spiritual experiences, and this moment really impacted me, and caused me to doubt the existence of a higher

I did not come to know Christ until December of 2003 at the age of 25 at First Baptist Church of Gordonsville Tennessee. As a young boy, I had a desire to know GOD, and had even made a profession of faith, but never had anyone

Coming from an extremely church involved Pentecostal family- my father a minister and my mom involved in multiple ministries, Christ has always been apart of my life. I formally asked the Lord to live within me at the age of eight. Bible studies and prayer meetings were common, I was heavily involved in different church ministries, evolving from being another child within children’s church to eventually becoming a teacher myself. I knew Christ and I loved Him.

I grew weary of the "church people" and was turned off by the hypocrisy I was experiencing. This led me on a path of agnosticism with bouts of atheism for awhile. When I was 22, my pregnancy led me to really became deeply aware of my sins which led me into prayer and a turning away from those things. After my son was born, I was so full of love and appreciation towards God and I was determined to get to know everything I could about Him. I don 't think I would have come to that kind of love and appreciation if I had not first be made aware of the gravity of sin as the bible describes it. My first

The writing I did this semester for Engl 110c has meant alot to me because I was able to pick a topic that has such a huge impact in my life. I was able to do the topic about Navy Wives, which has a huge impact on me. I recently became a navy wife a year ago and my life has changed drastically. I was able to share everything I wanted to about the life of a military wife through my writings, as well as share to my classmates about my topic. I really enjoyed creating my ePortfolio because I could come out of my shell and be me. I made a ePortfolio website that would be for military wives to read. I believe this website would be perfect for any military wife reading it. I was able to give tips and information on what it’s like to be a military wife, how to prepare for deployments and how to stay strong being a military wife.

Over the course of my existence my understanding and my beliefs about Christianity has tremendously changed because as we grow older we have the ability to take in more knowledge than when we were young. When I was a little kid my parents would take me to church every Sunday and my school would have us go to mass every Wednesday as well, but as years have flown by me and my family go to church less and less. I feel terrible that I can not attend church as often as I use to, but now that I am in high school I have discovered

Since the day I was born my parents took my sister and me to church ever Sunday. I grew up in a loving Christian home and was encouraged at an age where I could fully understand, to purse a relationship with Jesus. I accepted Christ into my heart when I was in the second grade and was baptized in the fourth grade at age 10. Growing up I have always been super involved in Church. I have a heart for people and love serving. Since 3rd grade until now, my senior year of high school I have been on the leadership team with my youth group. I can not imagine my life without Jesus as the center. I have been pushed to step out of my comfort zone and because of that I have grown in several different ways. For example, I am an extrovert and enjoy getting new people, but never liked public speaking as I felt nervous and intimidated. By the many adult leaders, and pastors coming along side of me and encouraging me to step of on my comfort zone I now highly enjoy speaking and spreading the truth about The Lord in big groups of people. I am so thankful for the many God loving people that have come in my life and helped stretch me. Jesus is my entire life and I am nothing without him.

Welcome to the life of Nicholas Holt! Here I will share a few things about my life that revolve around my religious life and how God has impacted my life. To start off, I would describe myself as a believer who is a Christian, all of the different denominations kind of confuse me and they honestly make me mad. People get so hung up on the different kinds of Christians you are, but in my eyes, Christians are Christians who read the same bible and love the same God. With this view, I feel as though I love Jesus and I go to the church that bests suits me where I can learn the most about Jesus and praise him in the best way that suits my likes. Now I cannot say that this is the best way of looking at my faith, but that is how I do and I would say that the person that has influenced my life the most with my beliefs is my father. He has been there for me ever since I was born and he really has poured his beliefs into me, which has been a lot of how I look at my faith. The main reason I have the belief system that I have with Christians all being Christians, no matter what denomination they categorize themselves as comes directly from my father. I grew up going to a baptist reformed church, but my father never was prideful about being a baptist, he simply said that he went to this church because he thought that he connected with the pastor in a way that allowed him to grow in his faith week in and week out. I love this view that he has because I feel as though people should go to a church where they are able to relate to the pastor in a way where they feel as though they are growing in their faith every single week.