Church was a requirement - there was no choice in the matter; so was vacation bible school. Gospel has been in me since I was a kid.
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We weren't allowed to have secular music in the house growing up. I was home-schooled, and gospel was the only choice we had.
My family wanted church to be a place where we all went together. My dad was always traveling, and my mom was always working. School is where I did Bible classes and studied God.
It wasn't until my second year that I got to actually work with Church.
I came up in gospel.
My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.
After my primary school education, I started gathering little children by visiting parents to ask if they wanted somebody to care for their kids by teaching them the Bible. I have never attended any seminary school or Bible college in my life.
So many people grew up in the church, and you can have an awesome upbringing, but I made a personal conviction; I made a personal decision when I was very young. I enjoy going to church without my parents. On Sunday mornings, I want to go. Bible studies on Wednesdays... I have a relationship - not just through my parents.
I'm a Catholic, but I used to love going to Vacation Bible School with my fundamentalist friends.
Gospel music played a huge part of my life. I was too scared to audition for the choir, but through my own music, I was also able to find spirituality for myself.
Had I been more religious in my youth, I might have become a pastor, for it was the pastoral role I'd sought.
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