Indiana — Sabbath, July 17, was a high Sabbath for the Cicero (Indiana) Church family as they witnessed the results of the Holy Spirit speaking to two hearts in their midst.

Dawn Moore was raised in the Adventist Church and baptized as a teenager, but as she grew older her commitment to Christ and the church began to lessen. Dawn married a young man of another denomination. After the births of their three children, she and her husband, Scott, desired to raise their children in spiritual unity. Dawn attended several different churches with her husband, but nothing seemed to satisfy Dawn’s need for the faith and truth she had grown up with.

Throughout her life, Dawn was blessed to have a father and grandparents who earnestly prayed for her and encouraged her to reunite with the Adventist faith.

When she and Scott moved to Tipton, Indiana, in 1993, Dawn began to attend the Cicero Church. She and her daughter, Rachel, found the church to be warm and friendly, and Rachel was baptized there in 1998.

As time went by, Dawn began to realize more fully that she had not completely given her life to Christ. She began studying the Bible with Paul Yeoman, Cicero associate pastor. Following two series of Bible studies, Dawn decided to seal her renewed commitment with re-baptism.

As Dawn was responding to the wooing of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit was also working on the heart of Maryhelen Zegarra. Maryhelen grew up in Battle Creek, Michigan, and attended Adelphian Academy. After graduation, she received nurse’s training in Fletcher, North Carolina. Maryhelen drifted away from the church of her youth and stayed away for 20 years. During this period of her life, she felt something was missing.

A couple of years ago, Maryhelen began visiting several Adventist churches in the Indianapolis area. When she visited the Cicero Church, she found its friendly atmosphere and spiritual leadership inviting her to start over. So she began Bible studies, also. Maryhelen wanted to recommit her life to Christ and seal it in the rite of baptism, as a result of the things she learned from God’s Word.

Maryhelen works in the field of inpatient cardiac rehabilitation. And that is just what has happened to her heart — it has been rehabilitated and restored by the Spirit of God!

Ramona Trubey, Cicero correspondent, and Paul Yeoman, Cicero associate pastor