Michigan

My search for God’s truth started in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. I had gone through a heartbreaking experience and needed to find some answers that would bring me peace with God. I did not have a church background, and wanted to understand God’s character and what the Bible taught about life after death. I also knew that I did not want to live my life without God in it. Although my parents had told me about Jesus, they did not attend a local church. In my search, I began to study with people from various denominations, but I was never satisfied with what I was learning.

While I had been studying with different denominational church instructors, a close friend told me that someone in his Bible study group had said we were attending church on the wrong day. The right day to worship God was on Saturday. I responded that I wanted to meet the person who made those statements. It was then that the Lord began to answer my prayers and show me the satisfying truths which are in His Word.

The person who had made the statements about worshiping on Saturday was an Adventist Bible worker, Victor Marshall. We began studying together for several months. During this time, I felt impressed to tell everyone I met that Saturday was the day we should attend church, not Sunday. As a result, some of my family began attending the Adventist Church with me. It was a wonderful day when I was baptized in the Portsmouth Seventh-day Adventist Church. It was at this point that my father told me his parents in Michigan were Seventh-day Adventists.

I left New Hampshire to attend Southwestern Adventist College for two years, but finished my course at another Texas college. After graduating, I was impressed to move to Grand Rapids, Michigan, to seek employment. This is were I met my husband-to-be, Allen Bierschback. He impressed me with the deep love he had for the Lord, but he was not attending any particular church. A few months after we met, I asked Allen to attend a Revelation Seminar, presented by a local Adventist pastor, with me. He attended all but one of the meetings.

During the series, he accepted all the biblical truths, but had some habits he had to give to the Lord before he was baptized. Thankfully, the Lord gave him the victory, and the month after he was baptized, we were married. Since then, we have been a dedicated husband and wife team, working for the Lord by teaching in the children’s Sabbath school division, giving Bible studies in our home, and taking Bible lessons to other homes. Presently, Allen is Maranatha Bible Fellowship's deacon and the Community Service Center director.

Rebecca Bireschback as told to Bruce Babienco, volunteer Lake Union Herald correspondent