Come to the Table, Book #23

Aahhh.... anytime I read one of the books by Neta or Dave Jackson from the Yada Yada Sisters series it makes my heart happy.  Aaahhhh.... For those of you who have never read any of them, please get started right away!!!  I read the first one years ago when it was a library donation when we were starting up the library.  I had no idea when I finished if there was another one, but lo and behold there were SEVEN!!!  And then from that series you roll in to the House of Hope series, the mingle in the Harry Bentley series and Lucy Come Home (parallel novels, according to the author's website, books to be read alongside other books in the series) and finally the Souled Out Sisters.  Unfortunately for me, though, this is the end of the books on all those crazy, nutty, wonderful, God filled ladies and "menfolk".  

The Yada Yada Prayer Group originally started from a Women's Prayer Conference in Chicago (where all the books take place) in which the participants were "randomly" put together in groups of 12.  When the group first met in one of the conference rooms, they were all a little overwhelmed by the diversity in age, race, social status, you name it.  But by the end of the first book they are tight as string and ready to spring forth on their own to keep meeting.  Over the course of the other books the ladies have varied things that happen to them with their children, husbands, boyfriends, jobs, etc and through it all at the weekly  meetings they take their praises and requests to God.  You laugh, you cry, you get mad, you are overjoyed, you get absorbed in their lives!!!  This, my friends, is my favorite kind of book!!


Kat may be new in her faith, but she’s embraced the more radical implications of Christianity with reckless abandon. She invited Rochelle—a homeless mother—and her son to move in the apartment she shares with two other housemates. And she’s finally found a practical way to channel her passion for healthy eating by starting a food pantry at the church.

Her feelings for Nick are getting harder to ignore. The fact that he’s the interning pastor at SouledOut Community Church and one of her housemates makes it complicated enough. But with Rochelle showing interest in Nick as a father-figure for her son, their apartment is feeling way too small.

But not everyone thinks the food pantry is a good idea. When the woman she thought would be her biggest supporter just wants to “pray about it,” Kat is forced to look deeper at her own motives. Only when she begins to look past the surface does she see people who are hungry and thirsty for more than just food and drink and realizes the deeper significance of inviting them to “come to the table.”  (picture and description from www.amazon.com )