June 27, 2016

The Mystic Revelations of Don Green

Don Green has experienced many personal mystical revelations through the practice of traditional Christianity. He grew up the oldest of seven children in a strict Irish Catholic family. After high school, he briefly entered the seminary only to find that really wasn’t what God wanted of him at that time. Shortly after he left the seminary, he received his draft notice, but choose to enter the Navy, to pursue a construction trade. He spent four years in the Navy, going to Viet Nam in 1967-68. He was married and running his own construction business when he became involved with the Catholic Charismatic Renewal Movement. In January 1979, he was involved in an automobile accident, which laid him up for almost a year. He lost his home and his business, but wound up reading many Christian books, particularly a lot of C. S. Lewis, which helped him regain his religious footing.

In 1988, he moved to Maine and became the City Planner in Don volunteered at Thomaston State Prison, Maximum Security Facility, and worked with the chaplain for the prison system in Maine. He was a religious volunteer for seven years, and became involved with Yokefellows groups, a weekly gathering of prisoners and volunteers who share their life in Christ. With another volunteer, he founded Yokefellow House, a halfway house for prisoners released from long-term confinement.

Having divorced and remarried, he joined the Centre Street Congregational Church, United Church of Christ, where he has served as deacon. Besides taking a three-year study program with the UCC, Don enrolled in the Christian Studies Program At Grand Canyon University, and will finish the master’s degree Program in September. Besides serving his own church and several others with substitute pastoring, Don is also now studying hospital chaplaincy work in Bangor, Maine.

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NDE Radio: Don Green
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