I (Wynetta Kendzior) attended a church as a child and learned all the typical things most children learn by attending church. When I graduated from high school, I moved out of my parents' home at seventeen, determined to live a life according to my own terms. That's when I stopped attending church.

For the next ten years I moved in and out of my parents' home, occasionally attending church with my mom. However, I still lived the way I wanted to. It wasn't exactly a "Christian life."

Eventually I wanted church to be part of my life again. By that time mom had stopped attending altogether. I did not feel comfortable attending my home church, so I chose another one and attended faithfully. It was a smaller and more laid-back congregation than my previous church. I felt comfortable, but did not realize my lifestyle was not what Jesus wanted it to be.

One evening an old family friend, Fred McLemore, came to my mom's home to give Bible studies. I sat and listened to his presentation about the Sabbath. Until then, I believed Sunday was the "Lord's Day." By the end of the series of Bible studies, my Mom was convinced the Sabbath was Saturday, not Sunday as she had been taught. I was not convinced; I believed you could worship any day of the week.

A couple of years later, I met the love of my life and eventually married him. Yet, I still continued to live "just the way I wanted." Then my dad began attending a weekly Bible study with my mom at the home of Mick and Joy Maul. I remember mom praying my dad would go to church, but he would always answer, "No, I already know it all anyway." I never thought I would see my dad in church or reading a Bible, yet there he was in a small Bible study group and actually owned his own Bible! What was more amazing to me was the new Christian life I began to observe in my parents.

After the birth of my daughter Kaitlyn, my marriage began to crumble and I felt lost. I tried to keep our home together for Kaitlyn's sake. Five months after she was born, I was pregnant again—and this time with twins!

When Jonathan and Benjamin were born, I felt like a single mom even though I was still married. Life was very hard and I depended on my parents a great deal, which only made my husband angry.

One evening after work, I stopped at my parents' home to pick up Kaitlyn and discovered she was at their Bible study. When I picked her up, my interaction with the Bible study people changed my life. The Christian love they showed me and Kaitlyn was unbelievable.

The problems in my marriage increased and it ended in divorce. I began attending church with these loving Christians, which gave me a joy and peace I had not known. Through Bible studies, I learned more than I had ever known. The pastor combined Biblical events with history. Everything I studied began to make sense—even attending church on Saturday! Everyone sought to help me understand each Bible truth. I realized I was not in control of my life, and I needed to surrender my life to Jesus Christ.

On a beautiful Sabbath in August 2004, I was baptized in the Maul's swimming pool. It was a thrilling experience. I seek to rear my children to know Jesus. I am thankful for the friends I have in Christ, and continue to learn more truth from the Bible at our Monday night Bible study. God is so good!

Wynetta Kendzior is a member of the Three Angels Fellowship in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Bruce Babienco is a Lake Union Herald volunteer correspondent.