Ex-Church of Christ Support Board

None of my immediate family members are still attending the CoC. I do have an uncle and a couple of cousins over in Alabama that do, but we never see each other so it doesn't come up. Occasionally one of them will post something on Facebook letting other christians know that they don't belong to the...

Welcome. Glad to have you here!

Welcome! Glad to have you here.

If I ever sat through the reading of a "disfellowshipping" letter I don't remember it. My maternal grandfather was disfellowshipped and my mom had to sit through the reading of that letter, though. I am not sure of exactly when it happened, but my best guess is the mid to late 60s. Even th...

Thanks. It really sucked, but I consider myself to be fairly well adjusted. It was a long time ago. The circumstances around my molestation (the second time, I never told my parents about the first time until after the second time) led to a series of events that eventually caused my parents divorce....

Thanks for the welcome. My mother still does not go to church, but if she ever does, she only goes to a CoC. She participates every year in the a cappella chorus reunion of the CoC school she attended for half of high school. My dad died a few years ago. In May of 2014 my youngest 2 were baptized (P...

Hi, I am IO. I was on the old board, but not very active. Found this one and was afraid I had suffered a stroke when my username and password would not work. :lol: I grew up in a hardline CoC in rural Georgia in the 70's and early 80's. My mother went through her own father being disfellowshipped in...