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Adrian Thomas was born on the mission field in East Africa where his parents served with the PAOC and ELIM, for 25 years. He emigrated to Canada to attend the University of Toronto where he graduated with a B.Sc. degree and began to work in a medical laboratory in Toronto. In 1987 he attended the Urbana Missions convention where God changed the direction of his life. He left the medical laboratory for Bible College graduating from Eastern Pentecostal Bible College with his B.Th. degree with honors. Adrian then served as a full-time pastor with the POAC. During that time he organized and planned Mission trips to Guatemala, Haiti and the Dominican Republic. He has spoken at international retreats and conventions for missionary children and teens. He is a gifted and anointed preacher of the Word of God and has seen the hand of God move in incredible ways in and through him. Since commencing the work in Nagua, hundreds have come to know Christ, leaders have been transformed, and hundreds of people have been healed by the power of God.

Sharon Thomas was born in Grande Prairie, Alberta, and lived throughout Canada as her father served with the Canadian Armed Forces. Her father retired from the Armed forces when she was nine and they settled in Nova Scotia. After graduating from high school she attended Bible College and graduated with her diploma from Eastern Pentecostal Bible College in 1991. She then went on to take courses from McMaster University in counseling. Sharon has served in all areas of Church Pastoral Ministries, in youth ministry, community service ministry as well as co-leading mission trips to different parts of the world. Sharon is actively involved in leadership training. Some of her passions are to equip and empower women leaders, provide the tools children need to obtain an education.

Sharon and Adrian work as a team, and minister with anointing among the pastors of the DR. Adrian and Sharon have served as full-time missionaries in the Dominican Republic since January 2004. In September 2007 they became Full Time Vocational Missionaries with the PAOC. The Dominican Republic is a new field for the PAOC and as co-founders of Every Day Ministries, they are laying the foundation to build a ministry that will change the Dominican Republic and the nations of the world. Their vision is to empower, equip and encourage national pastors and their families. As they establish this new work along the north coast of the island, in the city of Nagua, they are seeing God save, heal and equip EVERYDAY!

Adrian and Sharon have three children, Kent, age 14, Luke, age 11, and Courtney, age 5. They serve together, as all family members are actively involved in reaching the lost for Christ.