My Testimony  

Dear Sisters:

     My name is Donna Martin and I live with my husband, Michael, and family in Prince George, VA. My background may be a little different from most of the women that visit this website, since I lived in the “world’s system” for about 30 years before I came to know the Lord. 

     I surrendered to Christ as my Lord and Savior after the breakup of my first marriage. I began to seek God, whom I barely believed existed, for help and deliverance from my problems. My marriage ended in Anchorage, Alaska, shortly before I was reassigned to my next Air Force duty station in Dayton, Ohio. 

     I had two children, and it was difficult raising them by myself, so I felt alone and desperate. Through the advice of a co-worker, I brought my children to a Christian daycare center for childcare while I was working. I was invited to attend a service at their Pentecostal Church of God ministry, and it was there I found the Lord. 

     I had been to church many times before, but I never fully understood what Christ had done for me on the Cross, that all of what Christ did was written about ages before. I learned that the Word of God is truth that we can live by, and I diligently began to seek Him and learn everything I could about Him.

     While I was stationed at Wright-Patterson AFB, I met my future husband at work, and we were married about 4 months later. That was a risky thing to do, but I felt it was the right thing to do at the time. After six months, I separated from the military so that I could devote my time to my husband and children. 

     I began to homeschool them, when it still wasn’t very popular, and continued to do so until now. Since that time, the Lord has taught my husband and I to place our trust in Him in regards to how many children we were to have. We now have five more children, and we still homeschool. I am now 50 years old and have found very few women who share my convictions.

     I started reading Gentle Spirit Magazine several years ago, and many of those teachings I learned from that magazine are still with me. I live in a farm community that does not have conservative churches, so our family attends a non-denominational church. I stand on my own with the wearing of dresses and try to apply modesty to our lives in a world that is very immodest. Some of the women in my church are not modest and do not submit to their husbands, but I didn’t either for a very long time. It only came through relationship with the Lord that these things began to take place in my heart. It was only through the Lord’s drawing me near that I understood what the Bible teaches concerning these topics.

     It was through my standing alone that I decided to start this newsletter, called the Kindred Spirits Journal. I know there were like-minded women out there, but it was just a matter of finding them. I found enough material to print my first issue, and it dropped like a bomb. 

     In my first issue, I concentrated on being a keeper at home, and that subject alone made it hard to even give the journal away. The women at the church we were attending began to back away from me when I began to share my convictions in the free issues I left in the church. I made no sales through my church sisters, so I placed the listing on eBay and made 10 sales in the first two months. I am now in my 5th year, and still have enough to write about.

    I am happy to share my life with you, and hope that you will subscribe if these articles minister to you.

God’s blessing on you and your family,

Donna Martin