[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 9]
[Senate]
[Page 13133]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      WELCOMING THE GUEST CHAPLAIN

  Mr. KYL. Madam President, it is my honor to help host our guest 
Chaplain from Arizona, Rev. Donna Kafer. On behalf of Senator McCain 
and myself, I thank the Senate Chaplain and all others who have been so 
courteous to Reverend Kafer on her visit to Washington. She, I 
understand from the Chaplain, is the first legislative chaplain to 
provide the opening prayer in the Senate and only the second woman to 
have done so. There are milestones achieved today, and we appreciate 
her being with us.
  She has been the chaplain at the Arizona State Legislature for over 
10 years through her nonprofit organization called Leadership Challenge 
of Arizona. She also serves as the Arizona area coordinator of the 
Daughters of Destiny Network, which is a women's prison ministry based 
out of Colorado Springs. She travels throughout the United States 
sharing her testimony with incarcerated women, encouraging them and 
sharing the freedom that is offered through the saving grace of Jesus 
Christ.
  Donna is an Arizona native. She and her husband Ross, a firefighter 
paramedic for almost 20 years, live in the Phoenix metropolitan area 
and have a daughter, Andrea Elizabeth.
  It is our proud opportunity to help to host her today and thank her 
for opening the Senate with that beautiful prayer.

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