I was born in New York City on May 6, 1931. I spent my childhood growing up on Long Island with a brother who was 5 years younger than me and 2 loving parents. Although my father seemed a bit distant from me, I seemed to inherit my father’s love of sports 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, lonely, fearful of people, cautious, trustworthy, but never wanting to get involved, an observer of life and generally did what I was told. As a result of this character cast, I was generally teased by other children, which in turn made me fear other people even more. And my church experience at the time turned out mostly negative, even though my parents were pretty active church goers, and I felt pretty close to God.

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

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 probably became born again. My calling at the time was as an accountant with a degree from LaSalle Extension University in Chicago. However, he was still phlegmatic.

My experience of transformation occurred when I visited a nudist camp a few years later, which turned my life upside down by giving me the freedom (without clothes), for the first time, to truly be myself and become a much more individual. sensitive to people. As a result of the orientation of my new people, I received my Master’s Degree in Religious Education from New York Theological Seminary in New York in 1968, became actively involved in politics, began organizing discussion groups, started a prison ministry, and began to many other people. oriented activities. It is interesting to note here that as I participated in more and more nude camp activities, I noticed less and less the nudity (both male and female) of the individuals and more and more their distinctive personality characteristics.

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

I remarried four years after the death of my first wife. She’s argentine. After about 8 years living in the United States, we moved to Argentina to be with my wife’s family. Upon 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 would never 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 participants can learn 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 at 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.

Today my greatest love, as far as ministry is concerned, is in the Ministry of Reconciliation. I’ve already done some of this in focus groups on predestination, the Vietnam war, the purpose of the United Nations, with someone who was wrongly accused of being a communist, and possibly to help my current church and its Board have a better communication. skills with each other. They were all quite successful. Now I hope that the present book that I am writing entitled “A Discussion Guide on Christian Concerns” serves 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.

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