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Summary: Fun Fiction with a Message
Review: This wonderful book was a Christmas gift but I didn't get a chance to start it until this past weekend. I read from cover to cover without a break...I just couldn't bear to put it down. It is fantastic! The mix of cultures,denominations and the uniqueness of each individual paired with a Christian message of redemption and faith hooked me from the first page. I came here searching for a second installment and am thrilled to see that there are two more planned!
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Summary: The Yada Yada Prayer Group will give you a lotta, lotta joy
Review: When Jodi Baxter reluctantly agrees to attend a weekend Women's Conference with her co-worker, Avis, she only hopes that it will encourage them to better connect as friends. She is surprised to be thrown into a diverse group of a dozen women from various backgrounds and experiences who will come to be a very important part of Jodi's spiritual growth.During the weekend conference, one of the prayer members suffers a personal crisis that force the women in Prayer Group 26 to do something...pray. And pray, they do, all night long, taking turns praying for this woman they've just met and the family they don't know at all. When the weekend ends, they realize the power of their combined prayer and their need for each other's support, so they set up an e-mail loop to continue praying for and connecting with each other. The e-mail loop is jokingly named The Yada Yada Prayer Group, but they'll soon learn that the meaning of it's name is no joke at all. As they learn more about each other and their respective trials, they decide to meet in person as well as share via e-mail. They begin attending each other's churches, homes and workplaces and in so doing become more and more involved in each other's lives. While this book easily allows us to experience parts of each Yada Yada Prayer Group member's lives, the main protagonist is Jodi Baxter and her relationship with each Yada Yada. I was especially intrigued by Jodi's negative perception of Leslie Stuart (aka Stu) being a know-it-all-do-gooder and would love to have seen that relationship developed and resolved more effectively. However, it's Jodi's own Pharisee-like attitude that requires resolution when she suffers a crisis and is faced with her own denied sin and spiritual neediness. But, as promised, God meets all of Jodi's needs, this time through a group of women that until a few months before, she'd never even known existed. I formed my own bond with The Yada Yada Prayer Group and truly hope to see more of them in the future. The fact that there were a few loose ends left when the book came to an end gives me hope that there will indeed be a Yada Yada Prayer Group revival in the future! (edit: I recently found out that this book, is indeed, the first in a series of three books!)
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Summary: I don't read Christian fiction and I loved this book
Review: When women's Christian fiction appears on the shelf I usually walk right by. This book was different. I appreciated the realness of the characters. The honesty of their weaknesses.
No easy, religious answers.
One reviewer panned the book as a Christian knock-off of the YaYa Sisterhood. I wondered as wellwhen I first saw the book and read the title. Then, discovered the title has a cleverly used double meaning.
The book is about women thrown together in an informal prayer group at a conference. Unexpected events throw them into each other's lives, too.
They call themselves the yada yada prayer group...meaning "whatever..yada yada" Then we learn that in hebrew, yada yada means to "know and be known" A good read. AND, Yada Yada #2 is even better.
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Summary: Yada Yada ,Yeah Neta Jackson!
Review: With great sorrow, I finished reading Ms. Jackson's book. Like a previous post I read, I am very happy to learn there are more books to this series coming our way! The author's masterful, fun, lively, power-filled and honest story about the importance of sisters in Christ--of every shape, color and background--coming together to pray for one another is inspiring. Whether you're interested in simply reading a good story, searching your own realities about prejudices (in a gentle way) or longing for more prayer with other believers in your life, Yada Yada Prayer Group will bring light to your quest. Way to go Neta Jackson!
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