About Dorie . . .
Dorothy (Dorie) Nilles is a retired registered psychiatric nurse who resides in Lombard Illinois. She has two grown sons; both gifted and talented, and four beautiful grand children.
Dorie has been called be steward of the Hope Renewed Christian Mental Health ministry that is designed to help anyone who is struggling with mental, spiritual and emotional issues.
Dorie was born at The Willows Maternity Sanitarium in Kansas City, Missouri. This was a home for unwed pregnant women in a day when such situations were not even discussed in polite society. She was adopted into a Dutch Christian family when she was just a few weeks old. Although her adoptive parents raised her in the Christian Reformed church and sent her to an excellent Christian school, theirs was a very dysfunctional family with many abuses, mental and emotional difficulties.
Through these challenges, Dorie learned that her God Jehovah, the God of the Bible, is a loving and sovereign Father. God placed her in an environment in which she grew strong, with support and love from Godly extended family members mentoring and encouraging her. God has used joy and sorrow, opportunity and hardship to mold her into a loving, creative and dedicated wife, mother, grandmother, friend, nurse, entrepreneur, leader. This early education laid the foundation for her to be able to help others who have traveled this same path of childhood abuse and betrayal. If there is anything worse than murder … it is betrayal. When you kill someone you basically put them out of their misery , but when you betray them you leave a wound that continues to fester and hurt and possibly never heal. Only God can heal this type of wound. To this, Dorie has dedicated her life to helping broken people in this broken world.
The above is but a brief glimpse into the life and work of this talented, nurturing and gifted woman of God.