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Our Library Services Coordinator is Brenda Newton-Taylor and while we do not have a library at this time she continues to coordinate the Gateway Church Book Club. Members of the book club meet on the second Tuesday of each month, alternate between fiction and non-fiction and take turns facilitating and hosting the group in their homes. New members are always welcome! Contact information is available at the bottom of the reading list.
Reading List 2007/2008
Tuesday, November 13/07: A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
In A LONG WAY GONE, Beah, now twenty-six years old, tells a riveting story. At the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he’d been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found that he was capable of truly terrible acts. Eventually released by the army and sent to a UNICEF rehabilitation center, he struggled to regain his humanity and to reenter the world of civilians, who viewed him with fear and suspicion. This is, at last, a story of redemption and hope.
No meeting in December
Tuesday, January 8/08: Rescued by John Bevere
Alan Rockaway's church is growing. He's successful. Life is good---God is great. He wouldn't forget that, would he? But a sudden tragedy puts the pastor and his congregation before the judgment seat---with shocking consequences. Evangelist Bevere and novelist Olsen offer a powerful allegory of what happens when believers "spin the sin" into something else.
Tuesday, February 12/08: Inside the Kingdom by Carmen Bin Ladin
Carmen bin Ladin, half Swiss and half Persian, married into-and later divorced from-the bin Laden family and found herself inside a complex and vast clan, part of a society that she neither knew nor understood. Her story takes us inside the bin Laden family and one of the most powerful, secretive, and repressed kingdoms in the world.
Tuesday, March 11/08
To be decided: suggestions welcome!
Tuesday, April 8/08: Race Against Time by Stephen Lewis - 2nd Edition
In Race Against Time, Stephen Lewis advances real solutions to help societies across the globe achieve the Millennium Goals. Through lucid, pragmatic explanations, he shows how dreams such as universal primary education, a successful war against the AIDS pandemic, and environmental sustainability, are within the grasp of humanity. For anyone interested in forging a better world in the third millennium, "Race Against Time is powerful testimony.
Tuesday, May 13/08
To be decided: suggestions welcome!
Feel free to join us at any time! Contact Brenda here.
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