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JOHN BRADSHAW
February 2026
Dear Partner in ministry, The first email I received from a woman I’ll call Victoria contained a fairly general Bible question. But in her second email, it became obvious Victoria was searching. “Should I be baptized by immersion?” Victoria asked me. “I was raised Catholic, but I don’t believe their teachings anymore. I am thinking I should be baptized.” I pointed to several Bible passages in my reply and encouraged her to follow God’s leading. Then Victoria wrote again, asking if I could help her locate a Sabbath-keeping church near her home. Victoria wrote to me again recently. “Today, upon returning from Sabbath services, I saw the envelope you sent announcing that a Catholic priest had been baptized. What a coincidence,” Victoria said. “For in a few hours I myself, an 88-year-old former Catholic, was going to be baptized.” Victoria had begun watching our weekly It Is Written program, and then she received the It Is Written Bible Study Guides. As she studied, questions were being raised, and questions were being answered. She found new faith and new hope. An It Is Written ministry representative visited her and helped her locate a Sabbath-keeping church, before Victoria found another church as she was driving by. That little church had only five members, although now it has grown to 15. Victoria is a much-loved part of her new church, where, clearly, God is doing something special. One of her fellow church members wrote to me and said, “She asked for baptism from the first day and surprised everyone with the depth of her knowledge of the Bible. God has been so good!”