This series includes 7 books.
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Book 1The Yada Yada Prayer Group
by Neta Jackson
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What do an ex-con, a former addict, a real estate broker, a college student, and a married mother of two have in common? Nothing, or so I thought. Who would have imagined that God would make a group as mismatched as ours the closet of friends? I almost didn’t even go to the Chicago Women’s Conference – after all, being thrown together with five hundred strangers wasn’t exactly my "comfort zone." But I would be rooming with my boss, Avis, and I hoped that maybe I might make a friend or two. When Avis and I were assigned to a prayer group of twelve women at the conference, I wasn’t sure what to think. There was Flo, an outspoken ex-drug addict; Ruth, a Messianic Jew who could smother-mother you to death; and Yo-Yo, an ex-con who wasn’t even a Christian! Not to mention women from Jamaica, Honduras, South Africa – practically a mini-United Nations. We certainly didn’t have much in common. But something happened that weekend to make us realize we had to hang together. So "the Yada Yada Prayer Group" decided to keep praying for each other via e-mail. That worked for a while, but our personal struggles and requests soon got too intense for cyberspace, so we decided to meet together every other Sunday night. Talk about a rock tumbler!–knocking off each other’s rough edges, learning to laugh and cry along the way. But when I faced the biggest crisis of my life, God used my newfound girlfriends to help teach me – Jodi Baxter, longtime Christian "good girl" – what it means to be just a sinner saved by grace.
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Book 2The Yada Yada Prayer Group Gets Down
by Neta Jackson
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A robbery, a lynching, and a mourning mother shakes up the Yada Yada Prayer Group. I had never felt so violated! The Yada Yada Prayer Group was "gettin down" with God in prayer and praise one night when a heroin-crazed woman barged into my house, demanded our valuables, and threatened us with a 10-inch knife -- a knife that drew blood. We wondered if we'd ever get back to normal after this terrifying experience. I assumed we would (although "normal" doesn't usually describe the twelve of us mismatched women anyway). After all, we'd started praying together at the Chicago Women's Conference last spring, and we'd been through a lot already as spiritual sisters. This was just one more hurdle to conquer, right? But then a well-meaning gesture suddenly incited a backlash of anger in the group, forcing us to confront generations of racial division, pain, and distrust -- and stretching our friendships to the limit. Initially I thought, "Surely I, Jodi "Good Girl" Baxter, am not responsible for other people's sins -- am I?" But a shocking confrontation in my third-grade classroom forced me to face my own accountability, and God used the Yada Yada Prayer Group (and my own husbands, of all people!) to show me what true forgiveness really is.
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Book 3The Yada Yada Prayer Group Gets Real
by Neta Jackson
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The Yada Yada Prayer Group has become a national phenomenon, with thousands of women across the country joining reading groups to live and learn through their fictional sisters. Book Three finds Jodi Baxter's oasis turned upside down when her upstairs neighbors move out and her nemesis, Leslie (Stu) Stuart, moves in! Avis' middle-aged cocoon is turned inside out, too, by a beau from her past, and Chanda's future has never looked brighter. But Stu's proximity to the Baxter household will draw her secret to the surface-and no one is ready for the crisis that will follow or the question the group will have to face: Just how far does forgiveness go when it requires investing your life in the forgiven one?
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Book 4The Yada Yada Prayer Group Gets Tough
by Neta Jackson
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In book four of the series, suddenly everything seems to be falling apart. Nony's family is in crisis, the teenagers seem out of control, Chanda discovers that money can't solve all her problems, and the Yada Yada ladies realize that they need to take their prayers to a new level.
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Book 5The Yada Yada Prayer Group Gets Caught
by Neta Jackson
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The Yada Yada sisters thoughened their prayer knees when a vicious attack, meant to stir up hate and division, became instead a witness of hope and reconciliation. But they soon find themselves trapped in circumstances that expose the subtle lies they believe about themselves, God, each other, and life! Ruth and Ben are caught in an unplanned pregnancy - in their fifties! Chanda is caught by the glitter of her dream come true - winning the lottery. Florida moves her family, hoping to leave troubles behind - but finds they caught up to her. Avis is caught between her new husband and a daughter who "runs home to mama" from an abusive marriage. Uptown Community and New Morning discover that merging their congregations is fraught with pitfalls that strain their good intentions. And Jodi Baxter, who just wants a "normal" life, is discovering that God's ways are bigger than her ways - and He just might ask her to speak the truth and walk unfamiliar paths.
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Book 6The Yada Yada Prayer Group Gets Rolling
by Neta Jackson
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A devastating fire wakes up the Yadas to a new reality: God is on the move. What I'd like to know is, why does God keep rearranging my comfort zone? It could have something to do with my Yada Yada prayer sisters, who aren't afraid to get in each other's faces and tend to expect big things from God. But to move forward, sometimes we have to let go of what's behind. In spite of the loss of two dear friends. In spite of the breakup of a teenage love. In spite of the curse of HIV. In spite of prison time hanging over the head of a beloved child. In spite of fire consuming the hopes of those who have nothing. Yet out of the ashes, God is doing a new thing! It's time for the Yadas to press on, pray on, and get rolling!
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Book 7The Yada Yada Prayer Group Gets Decked Out
by Neta Jackson
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From Thanksgiving and Christmas to rolling in the New Year, the Yada Yadas are "decked out" to celebrate the holidays! Turkey dinners, tree trimming, and decking the halls--it's that time of year again! And I, Jodi Baxter, can't wait to celebrate. My kids are coming home for Thanksgiving and Christmas, and then all of us Yadas are getting decked out for a big New Year's party. But God's idea of "decked out" might just change the nature of our party plans. A perplexing encounter with a former student, a crime that literally knocks me off my feet, a hurry-up wedding, and a child who will forever change our family...it's times like these that I really need my prayer sisters. This holiday season, we Yada Yadas are learning that no one can out-celebrate God. So let's get this party started!
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