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[quote=Anonymous]I have not regularly attended church since I was 12 and my parents “quit” the evangelical church we had attended for years. 
When I was married, my husband and I visited several different churches but never quite got into any of them. Ultimately even though he was raised Christian, he became more and more cynical about church in general and any goodness of humanity for that matter. Not making excuses but his attitude really permeated. He assumes ulterior motives for everything, and thinks everyone is in it “for the money” or something and never doing anything just to help. That aspect and his dark view of humanity if only one of the reasons why I could not stay with him, but I am still healing from the affect his attitudes had on me. Also my teen son has absorbed a lot of his attitudes.

I miss going to church and the community I was part of as a child. For the last several years of my life I have focused my energy on launching my career, which I needed to do in order to get out of my marriage, but also found that I feel very much called upon to do the sort of work that I am doing. But in general during this time I neglected my spiritual growth and that of my children. My kids are now addicted to screens, fairly self-centered, and are not really part of any spiritual community.

Does anyone in here have any experience with bringing preteen or young teenager to church if they have never been? This seems very hard, especially since there is so much that I myself question. I definitely believe in God but everything else I question, and have pretty much been this way even when I was very religious as a child and had accepted Jesus Christ. Also wondering where I would feel welcome as a questioner and divorced mom who is also gay. Evangelical church obviously not where I’m heading.

I’m in Western Fairfax County, in case anyone has any contacts or recommendations. [/quote]

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