Sharon was baptized by sprinkling when she was an infant, and attended Sunday school and a parochial school for several years. At 13, she was confirmed and took her first communion. Although she attended church regularly, she felt spiritually cold inside. It always seemed to her that something was missing.

When she moved to Crivitz, Wisconsin, in 2000, her mother told her about a new church that she was attending. She was a little surprised when her mother said that their services were on Saturdays. One Sabbath she invited Sharon to worship in this church with her, and when she walked in the front door, Sharon felt she had come home. The people were friendly and genuine.

When the church members discovered Sharon had just moved into town, they came to her home with some much-needed groceries and clothes for Sharon and her three daughters. Soon her girls were attending the Adventist school, and Sharon was involved in Bible studies.

Bible concepts she had heard about years earlier finally began to make sense. It wasn't hard for her to accept the seventh-day Sabbath—it was in the Bible. Sharon also began watching video tapes of biblical topics presented by Dwight Nelson, Pioneer Memorial Church pastor in Berrien Springs, Michigan. His down-to-earth language made the Bible truths easy for her to understand.

As her spiritual understanding grew, Sharon made her decision to be baptized and become an official member of the Pound Church family.

Gloria Wilde, Pound Church head elder, with Bruce Babienco, Lake Union Herald volunteer correspondent