After studying business she enrolled in the Unity Ministerial School, receiving a Bachelor of Science in Education in 1956.
She founded ministries in Austin, Texas (1961–69), San Antonio (1969–73) and Palm Desert, California in 1973, where she remains minister.
Ponder has written more than a dozen books, which include such bestsellers as her Millionaires of the Bible series.
[citation needed] Ponder's The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity was included among 50 'success classics' in an eponymous book [2] by personal development scholar Tom Butler-Bowdon.
[3] While finishing The Dynamic Laws, she married and moved to the southwest, where her husband taught at the University of Texas.