For more than ten years, Evalina Wandalica waited.
She had read the commandments in her Bible and found that the day set apart as holy was the Sabbath, not Sunday. She took the question to members of her church and was told that God had reduced the commandments to loving God and loving one’s neighbour. The answer did not satisfy her.
A teacher and a mother of four, Evalina had grown up in a Sunday-keeping church. She had married there and held positions in it and in community organisations connected to it. She stayed, and waited, hoping her church would come to see what she had seen.
Meanwhile she began changing her own life around what she was reading. From Leviticus 11 she stopped eating pork and other meat the chapter lists as unclean, and gave up meat with blood in it. The Sabbath question, though, remained open.
Then her nephew, Alfredo Wandalica, became a Seventh-day Adventist. Later he became a pastor.
Through him, Evalina and others gained access to Bible studies, which added to her knowledge without bringing her to a decision. She joined a WhatsApp prayer group drawing together people from several denominations, including Adventists.
What finally answered her was a video course.
The Novo Tempo Digital Bible School, run by the Southwestern Angola Union, offers several Bible courses on video. One of them, Princípios, works through biblical doctrine, and it is taught by Pastor Alfredo Wandalica, her nephew.
The lessons set out the relationship between loving God and obeying him.
“The explanation of what love is made it clear that those who love obey,” Evalina said. “No one can say they love their mother and, at the same time, refuse to obey her.”
That was the point it turned. A question that had stayed open for a decade closed.
On Sabbath, 24 October 2026, Evalina Wandalica was baptised at Novo Templo Church in Huambo, in a ceremony officiated by Pastor Adriano Tomé, director of the Novo Tempo Centre of Influence in the city.
Members of the Southwestern Angola Union’s Digital Evangelism Team were there, among them Pastor José Gonde, who directs the Novo Tempo Digital Bible School, and José Chiaca, the Union’s social media manager.
