About Delores:
Delores grew up in Washington and Oregon but also spent many years in western Canada. Grade school teachers first encouraged her writing gifts. She appreciated their help and loves to pass it on by encouraging others. Delores earned college and graduate degrees assisted by scholarships. For many summers she worked for the Forest Service in both the U.S. and Canada. She enjoys wild life, makes porcupine quill jewelry, and gives convincing moose calls. Her home is now in Minnesota.
Today Delores is a teacher, speaker, and freelance writer and editor with nearly 200 publications. Her writings are found in Aglow, (The Christian Reader) Today’s Christian, Family Life Today, Prayer Journal, the Journal of English Linguistics, the Tamarack, the Minnesota Christian Chronicle, various newsletters, and several compilation books. She served as Publications Secretary for the 140 member Minnesota Christian Writers Guild for four years and is now Seminar Director. She teaches at Maranatha and Northwestern Colleges in the Twin Cities, as well as in churches and Bible Schools. Delores operates Creative Design Services, a consulting entrepreneurial business offering editing and ghostwriting for those preparing their own materials for publication. She recently completed Cec Murphey’s intensive Writers’ Mentoring Clinic which improved her own writing and increased her ability to aid others.
Her true children’s book, Whoosh, appeared in 2007. Two additional children's stories have won 1st prize in international contests and will appear in collections of prize-winning stories or as stand-alone books. She is writing a coming-of-age novel being considered by several publishers. Besides writing and teaching, Delores loves speaking and traveling. In 1980, she spent 3 ½ months assisting missions in South America. In 2008, she will go to the Philippines on a mission’s trip. She led 15 people to Israel in 2004 and is currently planning another trip. Her two sons are local physicians and she has five grandchildren, and a grandpuppy.
What Others Are Saying:
“She is a one woman college.”
Rev. Milton Vereide, son of Abraham Vereide, founder of the U.S. Presidential Prayer Breakfasts, who first introduced Corrie ten Boom to U.S. churches.
“Delores is a “Renaissance Woman.”
Dr. Charles Aling, Northwestern College, St. Paul, MN.
“Delores’ skill in writing prose and poetry is exemplified in her teaching style as her message shows relevancy to life today.”
Joyce Erickson, President Emeritus, Maranatha College, Brooklyn Park, MN
“Delores looks you right in the eye. Her windows are open and the lights are on.”
60’s International Rock Star and Christian singer, Barry “Eve of Destruction,” Bull Frogs and Butterflies,” McGuire.
“Delores hears the prophetic songs of heaven, then pens and teaches them on earth,”
Rev. Bill Johnson, VP, Christian International School of Ministry, Santa Rosa, FL.
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