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Donna and her husband Bill
live in Robins, Iowa, where Bill serves as pastor of Echo Hill
Presbyterian
Church in Cedar Rapids. She and Bill lived in St. Louis until 1999 when they moved to
Dubuque. Donna served as the director of admissions for the University
of Dubuque Theological Seminary from 2000 until 2006. In her position at
the seminary she met several Camp Wyoming campers and counselors that
were discerning a call to seminary largely due to the ministry they
experienced at camp. Donna’s personal experience at Camp Wyoming was
last summer when she served as a volunteer for a week. She saw
first-hand how the camp experience was influential in shaping the faith
of the campers.
Her
hobbies include kayaking, organic gardening, vermi-composting (yep,
she’s a worm farmer), reading (latest favorite “Three Cups of Tea” by
Greg Mortensen), cooking (especially the great food harvested from her
garden), and finding ways to be more “green” in her everyday life.
Donna and Bill have three grown children but bemoan the fact that they
and their families all live at least six hours away, especially because
that makes it harder to see their three wonderful grandchildren! They
think they have succeeded in turning their five year old grandson into a
kayaker too!
Donna’s most recent passion comes as a result from a trip to Ghana,
Africa this past year. She and Bill traveled with a group of seven
others from the Dubuque Seminary to strengthen ties with Trinity
Seminary in Ghana and the Presbyterian Church of Ghana. While there they
visited their World Vision child. It was a life changing experience that
has motivated her to apply to be a Child Ambassador within the World
Vision organization. She hopes to return to Ghana in the near future to
learn more about the work World Vision and other humanitarian
organizations like Heifer International and Doctors without Borders are
doing in that country. Welcome to the Camp Wyoming Board Donna.
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