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Kulp was brought up as a "practically atheistic" Episcopalian, although in an interview he indicated that his parents were faithful attenders, and professed in the tenets at least nominally, and his mother encouraged Larry to go to Sunday School, and also to an evangelical camp, Camp of the Woods, his junior year in the Adirondacks, in an effort to steer him from a young people's dance band he had started in Springfield.
As he could play the trumpet very well, he was able to get in as a counselor, though he was a young atheist at the time, and it was at this camp that he made a profession of faith, and upon returning home to start his senior year of high school, he joined a camp friend's Bible church, which may have been was a Brethren assembly. <br /><br />He also spent two subsequent summers staffing at the camp, and his last year he was conductor of the 85-piece concert band. It appears that after leaving Drew for Wheaton College, he may did not have continued continue on with the assemblies.
While in Buffalo for his summer training at Allied, he was actively involved with the First Baptist Church. While at Ohio State, in addition to whatever church he affiliated, he was involved with the local Inter Varsity club which included helping with local Sunday schools.
