Download e-book for kindle: Movie Star or Missionary?: An Autobiography by Dorine Hawkins Stewart

At 13, Dorine Hawkins Stewart desired to be both a film superstar or a missionary. years later, she knew evidently: God was once calling her to be a missionary. however the highway was once under no circumstances soft for this center baby of 7, born to a terrible Oklahoma preacher. while her mom died, seventeen-year-old Dorine used to be left to maintain the kin family in the course of the nice melancholy, after they occasionally survived on biscuits and gravy. She had no funds for school or seminary. nonetheless, Dorine continued, led via her religion in God and aided through her love of adventure—a trait her mom known as "too a lot initiative." Naïve within the methods of the area but daring in her prayer requests, Dorine placed her belief in God and located that He opened door after door. eventually in 1945, she was once despatched to Brazil, a rustic approximately which she knew not anything other than that it used to be in South the USA. Written with honesty and humor, Dorine's amazing story of her trip and missionary paintings there's packed with anecdotes approximately cultural missteps and God's bountiful goodness. As head of a coaching tuition for women and, later, as a number for the project with her husband, she has left her mark on numerous lives. Dorine's autobiography exhibits how God took a negative Oklahoma woman millions of miles from domestic and used her hardships, joys, and steadfast religion to complete nice things.