Pioneer Stories

Everyone loves a good story. It warms the heart and engages it in a way that facts and figures never can. Stories can worm their way past our defenses and speak to us in a way that can touch us, change us and challenge us for the better. The head can never accept what the heart refuses to see. Stories open the eyes of the heart and help the head to move forward when it can’t see clearly. Curl up on a comfy chair and enjoy these stories.

Ellen White’s First Encounter With Joseph Turner

Ellen Harmon Runs Away Ellen Harmon gazed unseeingly out of the bedroom window at the crisp white landscape outside. She stood perfectly still and yet the stillness belied the conflict that was raging inside her heart. She couldn’t do it. No. It was absolutely...

Stories of Ellen White’s Early Years

Ellen White and Bossy In a little cottage on Fort Hill near the town of Gorham, Maine in America a little girl named Ellen was born. Ellen had a twin sister named Elizabeth and six other brothers and sisters. There was Caroline, Harriet, John, Mary, Sarah, Robert and...

The Awkward Introduction of William Miller and Timothy Cole

William Miller Steps Off The Train Timothy Cole eyed the throng of passengers disembarking from the train that had just pulled into the depot. The old iron beast lay calmly on the tracks belching out plumes of smoke into the crisp spring air. The platform was alive...