Alice

by Roberta Kells Dorr

Set in Gaza, the account traces Dorr's growing relationship with Alice, a simple woman who has remarkable openness to God. For all those who believe that God still acts directly in the world and for those who wish they could so believe, Alice is a thought-provoking, faith-stretching book that will reward careful and repeated reading.

143 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 1989

About the author

Roberta Kells Dorr, born in the roaring twenties, survived the depression on a farm in Minnesota. She earned her Masters at Louisville's Southern Seminary and spent the next seventeen years with her surgeon husband and five children, serving as missionaries in the Gaza Strip & Jibla, Yemen. Here she had opportunity to extensively research and intimately explore the larger-than-life characters of her historical-biblical novels.

Reviews

[Nicole · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is about my aunt! Fascinating story.
My aunt lived in Gaza (Palestine) and was a Baptist. She worked with children and at a hospital. The author used to work at this hospital while her husband was a doctor there. She performed miracles and Roberta wrote about these events. She would pray for the very injured and they would recover miraculously. She had several visions of Christ in my father's childhood home in Jerusalem in the 30's. She was shunned by the family because she refused to get married since she felt her mission was because of God and Jesus. I never met her but she used to write me letters about her life.