HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Hope your holidays were good ones!
Please join us at our next meeting on February 8th at 7pm at Bay Area CC.
We will be discussing the book "The Faith Club" and enjoy some multi-cultural discussion and home-made desserts!

Please continue with us in the coming months on the second Tuesday of each month. Here are the books coming up:

March Meeting - Life Support by Robert Maxwell
April Meeting - The Pearl by Angela Hunt
May Meeting - Contemplating the Cross by Tricia Rhodes

Hope you can join us for some great discussion and fellowship!

Book Picks for the Fall 2010

Great discussion last night on True Devotion!

We have selected our book picks for the Fall:

Discuss on September14 -

Love is a Verb - Gary Chapman

Discuss on October 12 -

Gods and Kings (Chronicles of the Kings #1) - Lynn Austin

Discuss on November 9 -

Angels in the ER - Robert D. Leslie,MD

Discuss on February 8, 2011 -

So What's the Difference - Fritz Ridenour

The Faith Club: A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew- Three Women Search for Understanding - Ranya Idiby, Suzannne Oliver, Priscilla Warner

(we chose 2 books that seem to compliment each other since we will have a 3 month break over the holidays)

July Reading

Our reading for July is Dee Henerson's True Devotion. We will meet on Tuesday, August 10 at 7pm at BACC! Hope you can join us!

In True Devotion, which kicks off bestselling author Dee Henderson's Uncommon Heroes series, lifeguard Kelly Jacobs mechanically goes through the motions of living while seeking to alleviate her grief over the death of her beloved spouse. When Kelly saves the life of young teen Ryan Raines in a daring rescue at sea, his father Charles showers her with attention--and draws Kelly into a sinister plot that may endanger her best friend and new romantic interest, Navy SEAL lieutenant Joe "Bear" Baker. Henderson's strong women characters have an appealing combination of toughness and vulnerability, and she's not afraid of exploring their spiritual side as well as spotlighting their heroics. The sprinkling of military terminology throughout the book might initially seem daunting, but a glossary at the beginning of the novel will help readers who are unfamiliar with the lingo. Henderson excels in concocting just the right blend of romance and edge-of-your-seat action to keep the pages turning.

June Meeting: Tuesday, June 8th at 7pm

Great discussion and so many newcomers at our meeting last night! I hope you all can be blessed by the Christian Literature that we read and fellowship together!

Our next meeting is on Tuesday, June 8th at 7pm at Bay Area Community Church. Is anyone interested in bringing a snack to go along with our new discussion book for the month, Vienna Prelude??

Have a wonderful month, Ladies!

Opening in 1936, the Zion Covenant series tells the courageous and compelling stories of those who risk everything to stand against the growing tide of Nazi terrorism that is sweeping through central Europe under the dangerous and deceitful guise of Hitler's Third Reich.

May Meeting: May 11th at 7pm

Please join us as we discuss the next book "In the Presence of My Enemies" By Gracia Burnham. She recently a few months back, came to speak at Bay Area Community Church and we thought it would be a treat to really learn her story and how God worked through her.

Join us at 7pm for a snack, discussion and of course some women fellowship! Tuesday, May 11th!

In this remarkably honest and unaffected memoir, Burnham tells the story of her captivity at the hands of Abu Sayyaf, a Muslim extremist group in the Philippines. For just over a year, she and her husband Martin, a missionary pilot, lived with their captors and a variety of other hostages in the Philippine jungle. In a botched rescue attempt, the Philippine army shot and killed Martin Burnham and Ediborah Yap, a nurse who was the other remaining hostage. Gracia Burnham was also shot, but rescued and treated for a leg wound. Burnham hauntingly depicts the alchemical reaction of deep Christian faith, Stockholm Syndrome and the unremitting terror of hostage life. The odd intimacy among the hostages and captors comes across in surprisingly frank conversations. At one point, Martin boldly refers to all the bad things the captors have done to the hostages, only to have one of them look at him quizzically and claim he has never done any harm to the hostages. The captors, in fact, do unspeakable things, such as beheading hostages or taking them as unwilling "wives." Impressively, Burnham makes no attempt to dramatize these events for shock value, nor does she use this book as an occasion for Christian triumphalism. Instead, she chronicles both her high and low moments as a Christian during that year, and shows tremendous respect and love for members of other faiths with whom she lived. While some of the book is written for a Christian audience, a much wider audience will appreciate Burnham's brave, artless account of these horrific events.

Next Meeting - April 13

We will be discussing "The Voice in the Wind" by Francine Rivers.

We'll be in the Fire Side Room at BACC at 7pm and we'll have a little Italian Treat to go with the Roman theme of this book!

Please join us and bring a friend!

Rome comes alive in this tale of Jewish Christian slave girl Hadassah. Her story encourages readers to represent Christ in their world.

BOOKS Selected for the Next 6 Months

Hi Ladies,Great discussion last night on 3 Cups of Tea.

Here are the books we decided on for the following months, so order them now and get discounted shipping to purchase in bulk.

March 9th – The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
April 13th – The Voice in the Wind by Francine Rivers
May 11th – In the Presence of My enemies by Gracia Burnham
June 8th – Vienna Prelude by Bodie Thoene
July 13th – Captivating by John and Stacie Eldridge
August 10th – Secrets of Harmony Grove – Mindy Starns Clark

The Last Lecture is a short book and The Voice in the Wind is a looong book, so you might want to start A Voice in the Wind as soon as you finish The Last Lecture.

Happy Reading!