Women's Ministries
Women's Ministries
May's book is "Leap of Faith" by Queen Noor. We will meet at 4 p.m. in the Retreat Center. Check below for a sneak peek preview of future books we will be discussing. All women are warmly invited to join these lively discussions. Questions? Contact Becky Connors for more info.
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Date: June 13
Leader: Tracy Peterson
Leap of Faith is the story of a young American woman who became wife and partner to an Arab monarch. It provides a compelling portrait of the late King Hussein and his lifelong effort to bring peace to his wartorn region, and an insider's view of the growing gulf between the United States and the Arab nations. It is also the refreshingly candid story of a mother coming to terms with the demands the king's role as a world statesman placed on her family's private life. But most of all it is a love story—the intimate account of a woman who lost her heart to a king, and to his people.
Date: July 11
Leader: Pat Langford
It is 1875, and Ann Eliza Young has recently separated from her powerful husband, Brigham Young, prophet and leader of the Mormon Church. Expelled and an outcast, Ann Eliza embarks on a crusade to end polygamy in the United States. A rich account of her familyʼs polygamous history is revealed, including how both she and her mother became plural wives. Yet soon after Ann Elizaʼs story begins, a second exquisite narrative unfolds–a tale of murder involving a polygamist family in present-day Utah. Jordan Scott, a young man who was thrown out of his fundamentalist sect years earlier, must reenter the world that cast him aside in order to discover the truth behind his fatherʼs death. And as Ann Elizaʼs narrative intertwines with that of Jordanʼs search, readers are pulled deeper into the mysteries of love, family, and faith.
Date: August 8
Leader: Jean Lewandowski
During Word War II, a family finds life turned upside down when the government opens a Japanese internment camp in their small Colorado town. After a young girl is murdered, all eyes (and suspicions) turn to the newcomers, the interlopers, the strangers. This is her town as Rennie Stroud has never seen it before. She has just turned thirteen and, until this time, life has pretty much been what her father told her it should be: predictable and fair. But now the winds of change are coming and, with them, a shift in her perspective. And Rennie will discover secrets that can destroy even the most sacred things. Part thriller, part historical novel, Tallgrass is a riveting exploration of the darkest--and best--parts of the human heart.