About Dannie

In my heart I’m a home-body, but in real-life, I have clothing hanging in closets on three continents. Perhaps that’s what triggers my insatiable curiosity about our world.

I delight in searching out unique stories of our world and those found in God’s Word. When a question grabs me, I’ll dig until I can lay the matter to rest. DannieHawley.com shares my questions and findings.

Reader responses to three posts:

In response to news reports featuring activists tearing down Civil War statues, I posted

Three Indisputable, Historical Facts Statue-Trashers Overlook

“Wow, amazing information presented here. This should be on a major network so that they’d see and understand the facts! Excellent info. Great article!”

 

How Can Taxpayers Evaluate the UN Paris Climate Agreement?

“You have done your homework! Superb!”

 

Can the Average American Taxpayer Hope to Understand Tax Reforms?

“You always stay informed!”

Something niggling you? Let me know and I’ll search with you.

 

Back to personal stuff…three continents?

North America: I’m an American, born and raised in Montana but my official permanent residence is Spokane Valley, Wa.

Europe: I’ve been a volunteer missionary with the European mission Village du Bon Samaritain since its inception in 1987. The headquarters is located in Epalinges, Switzerland.

 

 

 

Africa:  My favorite location is the Samaritan House Children’s Center in the Republic of Guinea, West Africa. I’m the white lady pictured with our Associate Director, Moses, and one of our kids, Sek. I’ve served as the Project Director since it opened in 2007.

 

 

Prior to the Children’s Center, I served as Medical Director of the Bethlehem Clinic, located in a remote jungle village.  In the fourth of nine years in that primitive location, I became totally blind. 

 

Publications:

In 2011, I wrote Dealing With Our Fears When letting Go Seems Impossible to share the story of God’s provision during the incredible challenges of jungle life. (Put a picture of the book cover here, if possible, and a link to the purchase thing.

 

The marathon editing of my current project is taking more time than I ever imagined, but the wait should be worth it. Grace For the Night Hours chronicles the true story of my first years of service as a blind missionary in Africa’s jungle.

Written in novel-style, readers will be served a smorgasbord featuring unique jungle adventures and some incredible challenges faced when the dark hours descended 24-7. God’s grace not only strengthened and protected, but the amazing grace brought episodes of laughter and genuine joy to the sightless journey.

Grace for the Night Hours placed second in a FaithWriters (FW) Page-Turner Contest.

 

While awaiting the release of the African adventure, consider checking out other articles I’ve written for FW’s published anthologies.

In TRIALS and TRIUMPHS: Hope Beyond Circumstances

“From Dare to Eternity,” my personal testimony accepting Jesus as Lord and Savior during university years.

 

In TRIALS and TRIUMPHS II: Rooted and Grounded in Love

“Faith Around the Campfire,” a powerful story of God’s miracle touch for a little band of high school students on a mountaintop in Montana.

Articles I’ve written have also been included in the MIXED BLESSINGS anthology series published by Breath of Fresh Air Press.

Looking for a quick, inspirational boost? Click to find a list of some of my short articles. FaithWriters makes members’ articles available for the reading public at no charge.

 

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First Blog:

During the summer of 2011, I discovered I had childhood memories from as early as three years. The evidence of God in my young life so blessed me that I decided to write about it. I could see that my memories might not only help others to take a closer look at the events of their own lives, but would help parents discover the hand of God in the lives of their children.

These stories (ages three to mid-twenties) are told in a memoir blog, Understanding God: Sharing the Journey of a Lifetime.

 

Now for the stuff only a mother wants to read—or someone who thinks the face is familiar but can’t yet place it…

Education:

In 1967, known by my first name “Darlene” or just “Dar”, I graduated from Laurel Senior High School in Laurel, Montana. I completed a BA in Pre-Medical Sciences from the University of Montana in Missoula, followed by graduate study in Vancouver B.C., Canada. I earned a Graduate Diploma in Christian studies from Regent College, which was located on the campus of the University of British Columbia at that time.

Employment Pause: I served in a variety of jobs that provide grist for innumerable nonfiction tales. Medical Records Transcriber, Hospital/Nursing Home Administrator, Ambulance Attendant/Driver and later EMT-A Trainer for twenty-one members of the Northern Cheyenne Indian tribe in Lame Deer, MT… to name just a few.

During recovery from a sudden and catastrophic illness in the late-seventies, a Vocational Counselor with the Rehab Services for the State opened the door to nursing education.

Second round of University: My love of children moved me from the BSN earned in 1981 (Montana State University in Bozeman) to graduate studies in Pediatric Nursing, earning an MSN from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. In addition to the Masters Degree, I left Virginia with national certification as a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner.

During graduate study, I authored a special children’s book, Stevie Goes to the hospital, published by the University press. Pediatric Nursing published an article I submitted presenting the findings of a research project, “Post-Operative Pain Management in Children.”

 

Foreign Mission Field:

My life took yet another turn when I left for the foreign mission field in May of 1984, a career to which I’m still fully-committed.

Publications from this point include a monthly mission newsletter, and two booklets on the Middle East: Isaac and Ishmael Today and Lebanon: A Mother’s Nightmare.

I’ve been stationed in the Republic of Guinea, West Africa since January of 1991. I served as the Medical Director of the Bethlehem Clinic from 1991 – 2000. Following seven years of being a part-time medical advisor and full-time intercessor, I became the Project Director of the Samaritan House Children’s Center, a position I still hold.

 

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