Confirmation

I was talking to my sister, Helen and trying to remember when I joined the church and she could not remember any better than I could but I know I joined. I think we had classes at the minister's house which was only two blocks from the church and I think we visited Dr. Charles Sheldon who started our church in Topeka. He lived out by Washburn College and was very nice. He ran the Topeka newspaper for one week as Jesus would have run the news. The church was near the black community and they were always involved in his preaching as he believed God and Jesus accepted all of his people. I grew up with very little prejudice about people and their beliefs. So I must have joined the church at some point. Now the group at out church has a very involved path they follow to become members. I know when my husband to be joined the church in college it was much more involved and he was hampered the day he joined because his suspenders broke during the ceremony.