Worland, Wyoming…It has been said that SonShine Academy is our primary method of evangelism in Worland—and recently that outreach was rewarded greatly, by God’s grace. Through the church school, we have multiple students from the community attending with no ties to our church at all. This outreach is making a difference in the lives of students and extending into the family as well.

Robert Robinson began attending SonShine Academy a couple of years ago. Through his enrollment at the school, Annette Treat (teacher) became acquainted with Pamela Robinson, Robert’s grandmother and legal guardian. Pamela began asking questions about what our church believed. Annette shared here faith with her and also put her in touch with Pastor Steve Nelson. Pastor Steve spoke with Pamela on several occasions and provided her with various study and resource materials as she continued to pray and study.

One day, Pamela called to ask if she and her family could be baptized. They had been studying and believed that the Seventh-day Adventist Church taught the same things God had been teaching them. After all, it was her husband, Harmonson Robinson, Jr., who had initially studied and told Pamela they needed to stop eating pork. The couple had been studying the Bible on their own and in multiple study groups for years. God, through His Word, had already taught them many of the biblical teachings the church holds dear.

As Pastor Steve met with the family to go over the baptismal vows and beliefs of the church, it was surprising how well they all—even the children—knew and understood what they believed and why. After approval by the church board to proceed with the baptisms, a date was set.

October 19, 2019, the Worland Seventh-day Adventist Church welcomed these seven new members into its membership and fellowship. It was a day filled with joy unspeakable as it was the culmination of those many years of Bible study and prayer for Pamela and Harmonson Robinson, their daughter Angela and their grandchildren, Robert, Jeremiah, Angelica and Jacob. Pamela, especially, beamed with gladness as she began this new journey of her life with her family by her side. The entire family was baptized in the warm springs pool in Thermopolis.

Samantha Nelson; text and photos