The Yada Yada Prayer Group

by Neta Jackson

When Jodie Baxter reluctantly agrees to attend a Women's Conference just to get closer to her Principal, she is chagrined to find she is placed in a prayer circle composed of 12 very widely divergent women. They looked like the United Nations. Surely she didn't have anything in common with these women.

The book jacket continues: "But something happened that weekend to make us realize we had to hang together. So the Yada Yada Prayer Group decided to keep praying for each other via e-mail, and when personal struggles got too intense for cyberspace we decided to meet together on Sunday nights. Talk about a rock tumbler! Knocking off each other's rough edges, learning to laugh and cry along the way. But when I faced the biggest crisis of my life, God used my newfound girlfriends to help teach me - Jodie Baxter, longtime Christian "good girl" what it means to be just a sinner saved by grace."

NOTE: Edie Campbell selected this book from the Spokane Public Library's Good News on line book club for the June 4th book discussion. One member of this group who received the book as a Mother's Day gift told me she hates to put it down for a minute.

You can find the book in the Fiction Section ( DD# 800).

Review by Rae Yund