Yavette Goldsborough-Morton knew it was time to come back home, but she didn’t know coming   home would feel so right. Since returning to Liberty, she has rekindled her personal relationship with Christ and she feels good that her children are growing up among other Christians.

“Now my girls look forward to family worship,” she said. “I have enrolled them in Baltimore Junior Academy and have seen a marked improvement in their learning, spiritually and academically.” 

Yavette was born at Liberty, but at the tender age of 16, she stopped coming to church because she said she wanted to live her life her way.

“I learned about the Bible, but I didn’t know Christ. I did not understand this great controversy that we are in,” she said. “I felt that the things required of a Seventh-day Adventist Christian such as keeping the Sabbath and eating healthy, were really punishments.” 

But God’s eyes were always upon her, and restlessness grew inside her, a longing for something she once knew. “I [started] feeling like I needed to get back into church,” she said. “I also wanted to teach my children about God, but it seemed so hard to do.” The 2005 Reclamation effort and her friendship with a Liberty member, Kara Davis, provided the answer. 

“The Reclamation played a major role in leading me back to church,” Yavette said. At Kara’s invitation, she attended Liberty for the Reclamation day. Now, she attends regularly with her husband, Robert, and three children.  She and her husband have joined the Bible class held on Sabbath afternoons led by men’s ministry and she said she feels like she is growing spiritually.

“I have been on both sides of the fence, both a Christian and a non-Christian,” Yavette said, “and now I feel so much better that I have a personal relationship with Christ.”