Dorie: The Girl Nobody Loved [Paperback]

Erwin W. Lutzer (Author), Doris VanStone (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 26, 1981

'Someone has said that when you have nothing left but God, you realize that God is enough. God had stood beside me when no one else wanted me. He was not going to abandon me now. God would have to heal the emotional pain that throbbed through my body.' As a child, Dorie was rejected by her mother, sent to live in an orphanage where she was regularly beaten by the orphanage director, was beaten time and again by cruel foster parents, and was daily told that she was ugly and unlovable. Dorie never knew love until a group of college students visited the orphanage and told her that God loved her. As she accepted that love, her life began to change. Dorie is the thrilling, true account of what God's love can do in a life. Doris Van Stone takes readers through the hard years of her childhood into her fascinating years as a missionary with her husband to the Dani tribe in New Guinea. With the rise of illegitimate births, the increase in divorce statistics, and the frightening escalation of child abuse, this story stands as a reminder that God's love, forgiveness, and grace are greater than human hurt and sorrow.A loving reminder that God's love, forgiveness and grace are greater than human hurt and sorrow. (More than 170,000 in print)

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About the Author

DORIS VAN STONE is a graduate of St. Paul Bible Institute.  She works with Precept Ministries of Chattanooga, Tennessee, and travels widely in a ministry of testimony, Bible teaching, and counseling.
c.1979

ERWIN W. LUTZER is the senior pastor of Moody Memorial Church in Chicago, where he has served since 1980, and is a sought-after speaker at leadership and church conferences.  Among his many popular books are How You Can be Sure That You Will Spend Eternity With God, One Minute After You Die, Cries from the Cross, and Your Eternal Reward.  He is heard on Moody Church’s radio programs, “The Moody Church Hour”  “Songs in the Night” and “Running to Win”.  He and his wife, Rebecca, have three adult daughters.
2/02

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Moody Publishers (July 26, 1981)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0802422756
• ISBN-13: 978-0802422750
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.3 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #429,931 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars There is more!, November 8, 2000

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Sandy Burdick (Plainwell, Mi 49080) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dorie: The Girl Nobody Loved (Paperback)

Dorie has been a very very good friend of mine for the past 15 years. The story of her early life is true and tragic, but the second book, No Place to Cry fills in the blanks in the first book. Dorie, The Girl Nobody Loved was published before anyone wrote autobiographically about sexual abuse. As Dorie has courageously opened these chapters of her life, so has the Lord opened her world wide ministry of speaking. She has been 12 times around the world telling of the sexual abuse, the damage of shame and the way the Lord has brought change in her life by facing the past. I often tell her that her book needs to be renamed, The Woman Everybody Loves. She is loved and is hugged by more people than could ever be counted. She is truly a picture of the grace of God and the fact that He delights in taking what others meant for evil and turning it into good.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Jesus said,suffer the little children to come unto me., August 4, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Dorie: The Girl Nobody Loved (Paperback)

This book is about a little girl who was abused and mistreated by the many adults in her life. She came to God as a child and grew in Him despite the horrible rejection that she faced as a child. She became a missionary and suffered even more but it was for the cause of Christ this time. After her missionary life abroad,she came to America with her husband and children and gave talks dealing with her life as a child and a missionary. This book was introduced to me as a child and I have read it many times afterwards. God called me to be a missionary through her writings and the missionary works of others. I too felt that I was a girl nobody loved but God showed me something different-our sufferings are not in vain and that our prayers don't go unanswered.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tragedy a reality, January 8, 2000

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Donna Lloyd - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dorie: The Girl Nobody Loved (Paperback)

This book is reveting! Doris VanStone really takes you into her life and makes you feel the victimization in your soul. Great example of how God can help victims overcome the post-traumatic stress that is very real in their conscious and unconscious mind.