The plain choice : a true story of choosing to live an Amish life / Sherry Gore ; with Jeff Hoagland.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780310335580
- Physical Description: 188 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 20 cm
- Publisher: Grand Rapids, Michigan : Zondervan, [2015]
- Copyright: ©2015
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | Prologue: The girl on the curb. April -- The OC -- Girl power -- A girl named Tuesday -- Can you play a song for my friend? -- A quick note -- All for her -- The long con -- Toby -- The deepest hole -- My name was Sherry -- The biggest unadvertised resort in the world -- Goodbye -- Beat the bull -- Cracked -- Doomsday Tuesday -- A choice of another kind -- Feeling ankle -- My place -- Epilogue: Holiday in Pinecraft. |
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Subject: | Gore, Sherry, 1965- Amish women > Biography. |
Available copies
- 9 of 11 copies available at Evergreen Indiana.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 11 total copies.
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Adams PL Sys. - Decatur Branch | B GORE GOR (Text) | 34207001945626 | Adult Non-Fiction Biographies | Available | - |
Fulton Co PL - Rochester Main Library | 289.709 GOR (Text) | 33187004445348 | Nonfiction | Available | - |
LaGrange Co PL - Bookmobile | B GO (Text) | 30477100949548 | Adult: Biography | Available | - |
LaGrange Co PL - Bookmobile | B GO (Text) | 30477100951296 | Adult: Biography | Checked out | 04/18/2024 |
LaGrange Co PL - LaGrange Main Library | B GO (Text) | 30477100951288 | Adult: Biography | Available | - |
LaGrange Co PL - Shipshewana Branch | B GO (Text) | 30477100870710 | Adult: Biography | Available | - |
LaGrange Co PL - Topeka Branch | B GO (Text) | 30477100877186 | Adult: Biography | Checked out | 04/12/2024 |
Ladoga Clark Twp PL - Ladoga | 289.7092 GOR PB (Text) | 34545000324321 | Adult | Available | - |
Porter County PL - Valparaiso Public Library | 289.7092 GORE (Text) | 33410013545407 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Roanoke PL - Roanoke | B GOR (Text) | 30208100265373 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
Washington Twp PL - Lynn | B-GOR (Text) | 76683000036778 | Biography | Available | - |
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- Zondervan House
Sherry Gore weathered a harrowing journey until finding her life changed by Godâs love. Sherryâs plain choice was for God, and that choice led to her spiritual home, the Amish-Mennonite Plain Community, where sheâs raised a chronically-ill child, lived the Amish buggy life, and fulfilled her dream of using words and food to inspire others. - Zondervan House
Raised in a broken family and emotionally overlooked, Sherry Gore grew up without a solid foundation, a prisoner of her own poor choices, and at times without hope. A series of terrible mistakes left her feeling wrecked and alone and a sudden tragedy threw Sherry into an emotional tailspin too powerful to escape.
Sherry hangs by a thread, unable to see how she can go on living, until it happens: on a morning of no particular significance, she walks into a church and BAM the truth of Jesusâ forgiving love shatters her world and cleaves her life in two:Â She goes to bed stunned; she wakes up a Christian.
Unwilling to return to the darkness of her former life, Sherry attacks her faith head on. Soon the life Sherry Gore remakes for herself and her children as she seeks to follow the teachings of the Bible features head coverings, simple dress, and a focus on Jesus Christ. Only then does she realize, in a fit of excitement, that there are others like her. They are called Amish and Mennonite, and she realizes she has found her people.
The plain choice that Sherry makes is not easy â and life still brings unexpected pain and heartache - but it changes everything for her, as she becomes one of the few people on earth to have successfully joined the Amish from the outside.Â
She has found her place. And her story proves that one can return from the darkest depths to the purest light with the power of God.