Indiana

In the spring of 1995, Todd Miller answered a knock at the door. Upon opening the door, he found Pastor Bob Forss passing out cassette tapes. He asked Todd if he had requested a tape. Todd did not recall requesting tapes, but since he had been doing a lot of thinking about where he was going with his life, he accepted the tapes. Todd listened to all the tapes during a three-month period, and when he completed the tape series, Pastor Forss sat down and discussed the Sabbath with him.

Todd visited the West Lafayette Church for a short while. As he attended, member Joyce Summers gave him a special welcome each Sabbath. However, it wasn't long until his employers began giving him problems about getting Sabbaths off, and so he stopped attending.

In 1996, Todd began discussing the Seventh-day Adventist Church with his mother and grandmother. He was surprised to learn that they had both been Seventh-day Adventists at an earlier point in their lives. He also learned that they had taken him to an Adventist church with them when he was young.

When Todd's son, Christian, was born in October of 1998, he knew he needed to start going back to church. In January of 1999, he was laid off from work. Todd said, "At that point in my life God was working out the Sabbath problem." In May 1999, he was able to begin his own air conditioning business.

Todd started attending church again on Sabbath. One Sabbath Throstur Thordarson, church pastor, extended an invitation to all men in the congregation to come to his house on Sunday to study the Bible. Todd went and enjoyed studying the Bible again.

In November of 2002, Pastor Thordarson began Bible studies with Todd and his wife Rachel. Todd felt he needed to make a commitment to God. He attended the stop smoking classes offered and was successful with God's help. He was baptized by Pastor Thordarson on May 31, 2003.

Tom Kiesel was raised a Catholic. He was 19 years old when he stopped attending church. One question the clergy could never give him a satisfactory answer to was, "What happens to a person when they die?" Tom was introduced to the Seventh-day Adventist Church through his fiancée, Laura. Tom and Laura met on the Internet and soon became good friends. They often discussed different religious issues during their courtship.

Approximately one and a half years after they met, Pastor Thordarson began giving the couple Bible studies. Tom was amazed that everything he was learning was based on biblical truths.

Tom and Laura were married March 16, 2003, in Keene, Texas. Tom was later baptized on May 31, 2003, by Pastor Thordarson. Tom is completing his graduate studies at Purdue University. The Kiesels plan to move back to Texas where Tom would like to teach in an Adventist academy.

Becky Pfeifle, West Lafayette communication leader