In Donna´s book, Climb Another Mountain, she refers to herself as "just an ordinary woman," but then she observes that ordinary women (and men, of course) are all God needs to get the job done that Christ has assigned to us. After all Donna has done, read these words and heed them: "This is not a history book or just my story. It is the record of God´s leadership with an ordinary woman like me who could never accomplish any of these things or even think them up without God´s help."

Who is Donna Thomas? In addition to launching Project Partner with Christ and now CHRISTIAN VISION Ministries, she´s the mother of three sons, has invested a full career as a pastor´s wife, can pilot a single engine plane, is a teacher, world traveler, and has been called a full fledged visionary by world mission leaders.

Donna´s target audience includes churches, conventions, associations, colleges or universities, and groups. 

Donna also speaks at chapel services, evangelistic outreaches, religious emphasis week services and other events.

She speaks at public schools where she shares principles founded in the truths she lives by. She has a winsome style that maintains the integrity of the gospel message, while not alienating the public school system with unnecessary jargon. 

She travels from Indiana.

Chuck and Donna pioneered a new congregation in Wichita, a congregation that had blinders on concerning missions. Then a missionary in Mexico invited Chuck to visit. "This became decision time when the family went to Saltillo," Donna writes. "Do we say ´yes´ to something new, something unknown, different? Or not? We decided ´yes´." "Donna Thomas has had one of the most exciting, fascinating and fruitful lives for Christ imaginable. Readers will be thrilled and inspired by her adventures." 

Dr. Bill Bright, Founder, Campus Crusade for Christ International

The station wagon that took the Thomas´ to Mexico was soon followed by a bus that carried excited congregational members. Project Partner came after that and soon they owned a large plane that carried supplies to overseas churches and volunteers heading out to help others. The vision had been caught.

Sensing a new avenue of opportunity, Donna passed the baton of Project Partner in 1999, to new leadership and launched CHRISTIAN VISION Ministries, confident that Project Partner would flourish under the new and dedicated leadership. Since then, she has traveled to Sri Lanka, Cuba, Australia, and New Zealand to help indigenous pastors who will respond to her call to develop their own skills and then expand and improve the ministries of native leaders in their fields of ministry.

CHRISTIAN VISION Ministries will succeed as individuals confront their fears, frustrations, and dreams realistically and try to see them through Christ´s eyes. Have you ever felt or said, "Life is just one mountain after another?" Christ´s Great Commission wasn´t an off the cuff, shoot from the hip command. Jesus knew what he was asking and he knew what help he was prepared to give. Donna says that life is indeed a series of mountains, a whole series of mountain ranges. But for every climb there is the "divine guide" to go with us, to lift and pull and shove us to the top, only to point out another mountain, or as Donna says, "Every mountain is an opportunity and God is providing the opportunities. Each of us can climb, no matter what our age."

It has been my privilege to serve Donna Thomas as pastor for the last 17 years. As you hear her speak and read her book, Climb Another Mountain, you will get acquainted with an individual who has lived out in everyday life the principles she shares. Donna has been open to climb every mountain the Lord has laid before her. She will bless you and challenged you.

Rev. Claude L. Robold
Pastor, New Covenant Church
Middletown, Ohio

Donna´s stories are fascinating and heartwarming. You will feel like you have a front row seat on the cutting-edge of what God is doing around the world. Watch out! God may inspire you in a way you never imagined.

Rev. Gary Kendall
Pastor, Indian Creek Community Church
Olathe, Kansas

Not many service clubs had a woman speaking last week who has:

*Helped 6,000 people do mission service overseas.
*Traveled to and worked in 80 countries.
*Been to China twenty times in one of the few such programs tolerated by the Chinese´ government.
*Been to India seventeen times in ministry.
*Helped a plane loaded with church workers get out of Castro´s Cuba after being forced down on a flight from Jamaica.
*With her late husband Charles founded a mission service ministry known around the world.
*Written a book detailing her adventurous and dedicated life, Climb Another Mountain.

Well that´s what happened when Donna Thomas (introduced by Betty Ann Harman) spoke at our Kiwanis meeting last Tuesday.

Kenneth Hall
Anderson, Indiana