Summer Book Club

“I know how busy it can be in the summer with kids at home and all the activities, and I thought this might be a fun and different way for us to still do something together and grow in God’s Word,” says Barbara Houston, Women’s Ministries Director.

It’s not too late to be part of the first Women’s Ministries Summer Book Club at Crossings. Follow the schedule below and join in on the blog with Barbara—participants can chat online about their thoughts on the books. It’s a new and fun way to stay connected during the hectic summer months.

Interested in Participating? Sign up online.

Reading Schedule:

Women worry a lot—about children, friends, careers, spouses. Dillow’s book provides the help women need to exchange their anxieties for godly peace and contentment.

Rivers skillfully retells the biblical love story of Gomer and Hosea as a tale set against the romantic backdrop of the California Gold Rush.

Mack Allen Phillip’s youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later, Mack receives a suspicious note apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment, he arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change Mack’s world forever. The Shack wrestles with the question, “Where is God in a world so filled with unspeakable pain?”

Barton looks at the complexity of women’s lives and how they experience spiritual transformation. The author believes that women desire to discover their full identity in Christ and use their gifts to serve Him.