Long time, no see

Ok, it has been a long time, and a lot of things have happened since the last time I wrote. I joined a church, was baptized for the first time, learned how to make biodiesel from sunflower seeds, and became a year older.
The church I joined is the Christian Orthodox Church of America - COCOA. It makes the most sense to me. I have a question. If you join a church after years of not attending, but were baptized for the first time, does that make you a born-again Christian, or just a Christian? I don't really like the connotations of born-again Christians.
Biodiesel seems easy to make, but the taxes for road use can be pretty high. Growing and harvesting your own sunflowers can be labor intensive too.
I'm a year older too - whoopdee doo!