His company strives for excellence in technical and customer service, but he believes the real distinction of a Christian-owned business should be the desire to glorify God in everything that it does.

His building sign also includes a reference to the Bible passage James 4:13-15, which reads: "Now listen, you who say, 'Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.' Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, 'If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that.'"

"That's more of a reminder to me about my own personal philosophy and why I'm in business than necessarily to say anything to the customers," Don notes.

He started a transmission shop with little experience in transmissions and no business training, and the opportunity to buy the new building came up at a time when he wasn't sure whether to expand or retrench. "For this business to make it 20 years, and the move into a nice place like this - I felt at that time if it wasn't the Lord's will that I should be doing this, it never would have happened."