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Fieldwork Paper about My Church Experience Christianity is a brand new thing for me. In my entire 19 years of life, I haven’t had a lot chance to get involved with any church related activities. I have read it from books, seen it from movies, but I have never experienced what is Christianity all about by myself. From where I grew up, most of the people will claim themselves atheist. Lots of us were convinced that here were no Gods or any spiritual power existed in this world. Although our government will claim that China is a country of religious freedom, such claim really makes me laugh. People should not take Chinese government’s word really seriously. Communist governors are masters of manipulating. They promise us that we can believe in any religion as we wish, as long as it did not involve illegal activity. However, the government keeps indoctrinating Chinese people with all those negative …show more content…
I know the family’s oldest son as a friend from Virginia Tech. They invited me over their house to spent spring break with them. Mrs. Ackerman is the worship arts associate at her church, all of her family members are really devout believers. Mrs. Ackerman told me she was raised in a Christian family and she started to accept God when she was only six years old. Therefore, I decided to go to church with them at the following Sunday. It was a cold Sunday morning. Although it was already March, it was still snowing in Pittsburg. I remembered I had to get up at 5:45 in the morning because Mrs. Ackerman had to get to the church pretty early. It was a half hour drive from Mrs. Ackerman’s house to the Chapel. There were lots of hills in Pittsburgh area, therefore, I often got car sick from the driving and plus that day was quite cold so that half hour drive was really painful. However, compare to the early morning driving, my experience at the church that day was quite interesting and

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