A Sign in the Paper: Bob’s Journey to Truth

By Neat Randriamialison

Meet Bob Patton!

Bob couldn’t believe what he was seeing. His wife sat at the table, reading a small local newspaper that talked about baptisms happening at the Santa Clarita Seventh-day Adventist Church on Saturday.

Minutes earlier, he had been upstairs, flipping through channels when something caught his eye—a program talking about the Seventh-day Adventist Church. After weeks of searching and studying the Bible alone, he finally found a church that still believes in the Bible Sabbath. He had been wrestling with Scripture, trying to understand the Sabbath.

Bob posing for the picture after the church service at the Wasatch Hills SDA Church on February 8, 2025

“I just couldn’t find anything about the Sabbath changing to Sunday in the Bible,” Bob reflected.

He had asked God for clarity—a sign.

And now, here was his wife, his Presbyterian Sunday school teacher wife, reading about an Adventist church.

That was the sign he needed.

Without hesitation, Bob spoke with his wife. Together, they walked into their new faith, leaving behind their old traditions to join the Santa Clarita Seventh-day Adventist Church.

Years later, their journey led them to Salt Lake City, where they became part of the Wasatch Hills Seventh-day Adventist Church.

Bob’s story is proof that when we seek truth, God will do anything to reach us, even through a TV screen and a folded newspaper.