Sharing Their Hope

Story by Tamyra Horst

Pennsylvania Conference’s Williamsport church has distributed 6,000 copies of The Great Controversy in their community over the last two years.

The evangelistic initiative began when member Amy Fulmer heard General Conference President Ted N.C. Wilson challenge the Seventh-day Adventist Church to distribute the books in 2023 and 2024. “We took him seriously,” she shares. “What a blessing it has been!”

They began in spring of 2023 and went door-to-door each Sabbath with members, aged 10–98. So far, they’ve covered South Williamsport, Duboistown, Montoursville and Loyalsock. They will finish distributing in Williamsport in 2025 and conclude the initiative after covering the town of Newberry. In total, they will have distributed more than two pallets of books and traveled more than 37 square miles.

For the past two years, members have also placed an ad in the local paper offering the book. About 100 requests have come in, including one from a town near Pittsburgh and another from an individual in North Carolina.—Tamyra Horst