A Presbyterian Minister's Journey to Catholicism - Dean Waldt

As a young Christian, Dean Waldt wanted to serve the Lord with his life, but his first experience of ordained ministry left him burned out, and he left to pursue a career in law.
When he revisited the idea of ministry through an opportunity to work with youth at his church, Dean discovered a new zeal for learning about the faith, and the more he prayed and studied, the more he realized that God was calling him toward the Catholic Church.
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[@iolitamallari1393]

This heartfelt testimony went straight to my head and heart and once again, I felt so blessed to be in the Church that our Lord Jesus founded. Thank you for sharing your story. God bless you and your family. Love from the Philippines.

[@cominghomenetwork]

Thank you for your kind words! You are a blessing.

[@ourlifeinwyoming4654]

Welcome home!

[@watermain48]

What a great story. Thank you for sharing it with us. Welcome home Dean.

[@kristenstudebaker814]

Converted to Catholicism in 2015 from Presbyterian - best thing i ever did. God bless you

[@emmanuelogbu8851]

Mother church welcomes you brother

[@HeReignsJohn3-16]

Beautiful ❤️ I’m starting RCIA next week

[@joeterp5615]

Short but beautiful! This is the good news of the gospel that I pray all our Protestant brothers and sisters will come to experience!

[@dariachyrmang6777]

Pray more and more so that other Protestant will come home and be blessed.

[@truclynguyen9700]

Thank you for your post.

[@karensmith7487]

The Communion of Saints, our family, is a beautiful thing! Welcome Home!

[@johnchung6777]

Splendid and truly honest testimony from this man,May you be blessed abundantly with truth graces and virtues of the powerful glorious Exalted Praise worthy and thank worthy Holy Trinity Amen 🙏

[@cominghomenetwork]

Thank you.

[@davidmoser9934]

Welcome home brother. He is there. It is His precious heart that is in that which looks like bread and wine.

[@JEANCANDA]

Welcome brother🙏🙏🙏🙏♥️♥️♥️

[@JesusfoundedCatholicChurch]

Welcome home! I was Presbyterian for 55 years and ordained elder for 30 of those years. When the Presbyterian Church showed some sins as not a sin, I had to leave and study what the early church was like. In no time, I was in RCIA and studying to become Catholic. 3 years later, my only desire is why didn't I do it sooner. The more I read the Bible, the more I love my Catholic faith

[@Sheilamarie2]

Beautiful testimony! Welcome Home!

[@salachenkoforley7382]

Amen....Welcome Home...❤❤

[@Dienekes678]

Welcome home 😊

[@glennlanham6309]

lovely

[@lingsuyen9509]

Praise Jesus Praise The Lord Hallelujah 🙏💗

[@ginacaluscusin9172]

Welcome to Catholic Faith may God Bless U. More

[@joaquincapiro8919]

Welcome Home, Brother.❤️❤️❤️✝️

[@edwinserrano2949]

Very inspirational.Welcome home brother in Christ. 🎉

[@sheilatejada7748]

Welcome home brother 🙏❤️

[@sstritmatter2158]

Very nice

[@TheRealFranc]

Beautiful story and observations. "You will see with new eyes. The eye is the lamp of the body; so then if your eye is clear, your whole body will be full of light. Matthew 6:22

[@beverlyroberts8047]

Thank you for sharing, welcome home. Praise God.

[@jamesm5462]

😊 just like a man finding the most beautiful treasure, went home, sold everything out just to buy the treasure!

[@erikriza7165]

God bless this man.

[@NhanNguyen-st9gb]

That’s simply a beautiful journey!

[@emmanuelogbu8851]

..."Jesus I have been in Love all my adult life and has not met, just showed up in person" That a bomb there.

[@kylegabelino4390]

Good evening bro,I'm also a roman catholik loyay mem so I'm proud to be a roman catholik rellegion.

[@RitaGatton]

This brought tears to my eyes. I have been Catholic all of my life. I am active. But, I think that sometimes I have taken it for granted. This showed me what a great treasure I have in my church.

[@beverlyroberts8047]

I too have been a cradle practicing Catholic for 64 years and always knew I was in the right place. But I never could defend it through the bible. So for lent during covid year I started to learn. Now I can defend it, because I read and listened to many videos. I started with conversion stories to see what they were protesting against our faith. The first conversion story I listened to was Scott Hahn, then Steven Ray and Tim Staples.

[@ceciliarepeki3426]

Welcome brother!

[@johnvitelli3862]

Great man and a great story Welcome Home to the Church of Jesus Christ..

[@nemanidrova]

Profound and excellent; thank you Dean; yes indeed we meet Jesus every time we go to Mass on Sundays.

[@terrykessinger4432]

Beautiful testimony. Thank you.

[@vinceschenden7349]

Great story! Thanks for sharing it!

[@draff1662]

Very cool!

[@sopad4629]

Makes me cry and emotional because it’s beautiful. Thanks for sharing. God bless us all.

[@cklyngdoh4628]

Welcome home Sir. Jesus is now really very happy about you ❤❤❤

[@gilbertgarrido297]

Thanks for sharing

[@marcihf217]

Thank You Lord God for this conversion. Welcome Home ❤❤❤

[@situatesanctify2818]

I thank God, and I thank you for sharing brother.

[@MaryMBray-ki9sy]

God bless you🙌😇welcome home🙏✌

[@veronicamacgreevy6532]

Fair play Dean sharing your experience in such a loving and informative manner. Pure Joy. Also the subtle way you introduced our mother Mary right at the close. Ave Maria. I wish more Catholics would open their hearts and minds to the beauty of our faith. We will get there in Jesus Name

[@javiervonsydow]

Wow, that was just so beautiful. His faith is so strong and complete and the Theology and everything; it was, what ,12-13 minutes of a continuous stream of faith-based Truth coming out all the way to Mary in the end. It was just amazingly beautiful, a beautiful testimony of Life... How beautiful is the faith!

[@sanddollar18]

❤this beautiful Catholic conversion story❤

[@G-MIP]

”Wherever the bishop shall appear, there, let the multitude of the people also be; even as wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church. “( Letter to the Smyrnaeans, Chapter 8)-St.Ignatius of Antioch, 107 AD St. Ignatius of Antioch was a disciple of St. John the Apostle and was installed as the 3rd Bishop of Antioch by St. Peter the Apostle (most likely) after the 2nd Bishop Evodius died. Ignatius was also one of the children Jesus Blessed in scripture.

[@RGTomoenage11]

Powerful testimony

[@margaretpaul3609]

A beautiful testimony.

[@elispena1719]

Beautiful testimony, I love it . Thank you for sharing your great story.

[@leedixon4228]

What a wonderful testimony. Godspeed. 🙏

[@patriciamonayao3039]

Wonderful, wonderful....

[@thepic12]

Amen! Welcome home brother! Best part “I got a mom out of it.”

[@ruthgilmour8399]

This was wonderful!

[@darrylthehorntoadpiper]

Outstanding interview, yes receiving the Body & Blood of Jesus 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@augusta7356]

Wonderful new perspective on the mass

[@Joliebebe2001]

Beautiful. God bless us all❤❤

[@davidmoser9934]

Now that's beautiful and well said. VIVA CRISTO REY

[@jennywal7552]

A beautiful testimony of your journey home . Praise be Jesus Christ . ❤

[@javiervonsydow]

Beautiful!!!

[@paddyearly]

A beautiful testimony Glory to God🙏

[@julielabrecque6416]

Awesome Story!!

[@rhwinner]

So inspiring to listen to such an erudite account of what must have been a very difficult journey.

[@ShuyikaHenry]

Welcome Home

[@sulongenjop7436]

Catholic is all about Jesus and our relationship with God the Creator/Father and the Holy Spirit to guide us to live on earth like in heaven.

[@filiposamunaka3]

Amen

[@enricojrcapunihandailan9201]

I am catholic since birth and i didnt look for Jesus but rather i help spread the gospel all throughout my life....as he instructed " go".. in catholic u can experience a unique way of encounter jesus in the Eucharist

[@colinjames9362]

welcome home - i have some Presbyterian family, how do i get them to look at the Catholic Church

[@marywhittaker572]

Pray for them. Ask The Holy Spirit to descend upon them, to open their hearts, minds, eyes and ears. The Holy Rosary is a very powerful prayer.

[@JesusfoundedCatholicChurch]

Invite them to mass. I was Presbyterian all my life (55 years, 30 as an ordained elder ) and when I finally went to mass, I saw everything as biblical. I had a dream as a child and didn't know what it was until I stepped inside the Catholic Church. I truly believe that God revealed to me the mass in a dream. If they show interest, get them a Catholic Answers Bible or the Didache Bible. Both have inserts throughout that explain Catholic teaching using scripture. I have both and they are great! Pray for them.

[@michaelofsydney6128]

send them this testimony

[@Hithereitsme32]

More than anything live out your faith genuinely

[@davidmoser9934]

Remember folks that bread we see is really his most Sacred Heart. Why? Because He said so!

[@DadoMac]

They say faith alone. Yeah, perhaps that's true. But who got the true faith? The ones that could not believe what Jesus said this IS My body?

[@philipjohnginoy4673]

Proud Catholic =)

[@lolitamaltizo6562]

❤❤❤

[@annakimborahpa]

With his extended family following him into the Church in subsequent years, did he become Dean of the Waldtensians?

[@enricojrcapunihandailan9201]

Correct brother, Jesus founded only 1 Church 33ad . 2000 year ago already. Outside it, no salvation....

[@Bethmin7]

Strange times! the Holy Bible is in each one’s hand Unlike the times when we were kept away from it. I was a catholic walked 350 kms to a so called mother Mary’s miraculous shrine. Cycled the same, but by the grace of Elohim I got converted and will NEVER get back to the deceit of Catholicism. There are many Protestants and evangelicals who are as bad as the catholics but that does not mean I should abandon the WORD. May the Yahshua come quickly.

[@georgepierson4920]

Converted to what?

[@Bethmin7]

@@georgepierson4920 a Christian

[@georgepierson4920]

@@Bethmin7 Catholics are Christian and the scriptures are not kept from us. Lying will do you no good.

[@davetabuyan2172]

​@@Bethmin7you call yourself christian and joined denominations that just started less than 500 years ago. Bro/sis, the word christian was first used in Antioch back in the 1st and century. Those people who follow Jesus and His Church called themselves christians. So you cannot coined that word if your faith and way of belief doesnt even resemble how the first christian acted as a christian. In 1st and 2nd Century, they all agreed and believed that Jesus is truly present in the Eucharist. They believed in the magesterium and the authority of the bishops, bishop in Rome in particular. And here you are trying to convince us to abandon the faith of the old and joined your cause? What is a christian to you? Is that only by believing in Jesus Christ you automatically a christian? Demons and the Devil himself, believe and even tremble in the name of Jesus but they aren't christian. You abandon the Church because you cannot follow the church precepts and then decided to follow your ownself. Thinking that just believing Jesus and reading a book that you yourself don't even know the origin. And not just read but interpret on yourself by your own interpretation, you became a christian. How shallow is that reasoning. If you really wanted to be christian, then learn from the first christians themselves. How they behaved and how they believed. You will find that e christian really is not as easy as 1 to 3. Especially if you will find how very Catholic they were. So if you cannot accept that, then how dare you calling yourself a christian. You will never be a christian. You will always be a protestant, an agent of satan who has one mission, to divide the Church of God. If you were a catholic before, then you must be one out of the millions of successes satan made out of his ministry. Imagine, just by reading the bible you called WORD OF GOD, it created 40,000 denominations that don't agree by themselves. How absurd is that. A book written by men who supposed to be inspired by ONE Holy Spirit but if read and interpreted by merely ordinary and fallible individual it resulted to 40,000 denominations. What makes you the real christian among 40,000 claimnants? If you said, you read the bible, they do too. So are you sure that your denominations interprets the correct interpretation? All the 40,000 denomonations uses the same bible but cannot even agree in a simple theology. So what makes your 'christian' denomination better than them? Or say, what makes you sure that you are in the correct denomination? You know what. Protestantism in not a new thing. In fact this is just a shadow what happened in heaven. Many Angels protested against God and His Angels and His plans. Only that they were called fallen angels and you were fallen christians. Those rebelious angels doesnt want to obey and submit themselves to God. God wanted them to obey and even subject to men. That they will serve humanity for eternity. That's totally unacceptable to angels who were created with freewill and created above to serve humans that were created from dust below. That arogance and pride made them protested. And that exactly what you are doing now. That 's totally unacceptable for you to obey Jesus in His Church. It just that, you cannot fit your own pride and arrogance in the Catholic Church.

[@nicolasbascunan4013]

protestantism = subjectvism, relativism, and at the end: wokeism.

[@andrewmarascura1191]

You are now relax being in the Roman Catholic Church. You can now indulge in what you want to do. If you commit sins, you can just confess your sins, say penance and you are forgiven by a priest.

[@iggyantioch]

Um.. that would be the OSAS crowd.

[@Hithereitsme32]

No

[@Justas399]

Mind-numbing that a man can know Scripture and history can become a roman catholic. He must have stop thinking clearly.

[@JesusfoundedCatholicChurch]

To be deep in history is to cease being Protestant or non-Catholic. Those that ACTUALLY understood the scriptures become Catholic. I became Catholic after 55 years as a Protestant because I read my Bible and studied scripture. I am blessed that Jesus Christ led me to His Catholic Church

[@Justas399]

@@JesusfoundedCatholicChurch One thing we don't see in the NT or the church in the 1st century is the Roman catholic church. No bishop claimed to be the chief shepherd in the 1st century nor do we see the Marian dogmas nor celibate bishops. No purgatory either.

[@JesusfoundedCatholicChurch]

@@Justas399 Just because you don't see it or under it, doesn't mean the Catholic Church isn't the Church described in the book of Acts. The book of Acts describes the beginning of the Catholic Church. If you don't believe me, read the early church fathers. Every Christian from 33AD until the Protestant Reformation was Catholic. Except for the Orthodox schism in 1054. They went into schism over the pope.

[@Justas399]

@@JesusfoundedCatholicChurch The church described in Acts is not the RCC. There was no papacy then, Marian dogmas, purgatory, praying to the dead, holy water, rosaries celibate bishops. These are all the characteristics of the RCC and not the Chirstian church we see in Acts.

[@Sheilamarie2]

@@JesusfoundedCatholicChurch Amen, brother! God Bless!

[@MaranglikPeterTo-Rot-dm4nc]

Welcome home brother 🙏

[@prasantpradhan5902]

Beautiful testimony...