Mirror Church Shares Pentecost Story

Mirror Seventh-day Adventist Church’s Pentecost 2025 meetings were held September 6–13, 2025. Several community outreach events were conducted beforehand to let people be introduced and invited to the meetings.

First, there was a community fun day several weeks before—a Sunday where a free autumnal meal of potatoes, corn on the cob and the trimmings, and side dishes let people fill their stomachs while the kids had endless fun with a bouncy castle, slip and slide, and other games. The unrushed time and beautiful weather let great conversations and relationships happen!

Posters had been put up, but it was the door-to-door invites that really encouraged visitors to come out. One woman had her husband drive their family over to the address listed. Upon seeing the church, she exclaimed, “These are my people!” It turns out she had been raised Adventist. Together with their child, they came not only to the fun day, but throughout the meetings, and are continuing with the follow-up “New Beginnings” Bible studies held weekly.

There were a good number from the community who came out for the fun day, then the night before the meetings started, violinist Hayden Wiseman from Australia held a free concert in the same venue.

The Mirror Pentecost 2025 series had a unique angle, in that two of our local church leaders shared the speaking responsibility. Rhonda and Kelly did a great job of presenting the nightly topics. The attendees readily saw their passion and were able to relate to the speakers as regular people. Lindsay really stepped up to coordinate a nightly kids’ program followed by refreshments, furthering the relationship-building time between guests and members.

There have been three baptisms since the meetings. One especially exciting story was the baptism of an adult daughter of a church elder. She had seen her father become an Adventist when she was younger and grew up in an Adventist home. And it was now, so many years later, that she was spending a little time at her father’s home and able to attend all the meetings.

Pastor Sandra Deer mentored her with a personal week of prayer and more Bible studies. A few weeks after the meetings, God really moved her to decide to be baptized! It was such an exciting time to see her father—together with Pastor Sandra—baptize her in an outdoor service on that Sabbath afternoon. For two weeks in a row, the Mirror church family came to the little lake beside the Deer’s home for baptisms. The first week was Pastor Deer’s daughter together with her friend, and then the next weekend it was the elder’s daughter. So precious and exciting!