Refresh Women's Conference - A weekend conference for women to gather and be renewed through inspirational talks and connection with other women in a delightful atmosphere.

Brenda lives in a little house she named “Attended Ways” on a tree-lined street in a happy town. She is the granddaughter of a coal-mining, Polish immigrant on one side, and a searching Mennonite family on the other. She recalls three childhood dreams: to experience a whole family, to be a nurse, and to write books.

With gratitude she reflects on 29 years of marriage to John, and their years of raising five children. Seven years ago John slipped Home early after a nine month battle with cancer. Brenda now supports herself and finds fulfillment in being a Pediatric Home Care nurse. Words have always been her friends, and she’s gathered them together into an inspirational book for women, Daughters of Eve, Daughters of God and The Manners are Homemade Series for young children.

She enjoys grand-parenting, poetry, and collecting or reading books for children. Amazed at how God has attended her ways, she especially likes to adore Him in the moonlight from her hammock in the backyard.

Donna has traversed many years with her hand clasped in the Lord Jesus’ hand. For five decades she has desired her epitaph to one day read something like ‘Oh, to be like Thee, blessed Redeemer, this is my constant longing and prayer…’

Watching ladies grasp a little more of the precious love Jesus longs to infuse into their hearts brings her joy. And oh, the rejoicing as they experience transformations from apathy, pain, and struggle to living more passionately alive.

Donna enjoys spending time with her favorite people—her husband Bob, daughters, and ten grandchildren. Donna and Bob live in Harrisburg, PA, in their over-a-century old, three-story row house, among friendly Spanish neighbors. She loves watching God transform lives up and down their unsafe street—filled with desperate faces.

Donna has written several personal experience books throughout life’s journey which include The Treasure of Careful Planning, Treasured Meditations for Mothers and Grandmothers,You are My Treasure—A Journey to the Tender Heart of God and her children’s series Cozy Homespun Stories Book 1 and 2.