Reading Plan Report Form

The printable form below can be downloaded to your computer as a PDF file or printed from here. Use the arrow at the bottom right to download. To print from this page, press the printer icon next to the down arrow. Set your printer for landscape mode.

Please fill out the form and submit to the Program Resources Secretary by July 1st.

Conference Loan December - January

 RESIST! Christian Dissent for the 21st Century 

2011 Social Action

**BONUS BOOK** Counts as 2 books in Social Action category

This collection of original essays by some of the leading Christian voices of our time issues a spirited call to resist systemic evils in the realm of politics, economic, and culture. Further balancing these analytic essays are prayers and pastoral responses that call us to open our hearts, to overcome borders, and to gather together in pursuit of peace.

Change the World 

2012 Leadership Development

Despite the church's place of prominence in American culture, misconceptions about the faith of Jesus Christ run rampant today. Christians are known more for exclusivity than for love, more for potlucks than for solving world hunger. It's time for churches to reconnect with the true message and mission of Jesus. Pastor Mike Slaughter challenges church leaders to look at the future of their congregations and make tough but necessary choices.

The Road of Lost Innocence 

2010 Social Action

A Cambodian woman sold into sexual slavery by her grandfather at the age of twelve describes the brutality of the sex trade in Southeast Asia, the horrors she experienced until she escaped, and her role as an advocate for the victimized young women she left behind. She has built shelters, started schools, and founded an organization that has so far saved more than four thousand women and children in Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Laos. Her memoir will leave you awestruck by her tenacity and courage and will renew your faith in the power of an individual to bring about change. (Preview available)

Longing for Enough in a Culture of More 

2010 Spiritual Growth

These 25 brief, thoughtful meditations by Paul Escamilla are organized in five topics: The Good Book, The Good Life, the Good Work, The Good Society, and The Good Earth. A collection of thought-provoking essays and probing meditations explores the importance of escaping the lifestyle and attitudes of a "weighed-down" world, providing valuables tools for doing so.

Book of Discipline now online

The latest (updated 2012) UM Book of Discipline contains the laws, plan, polity, and process by which United Methodists govern themselves. General Conference, the denomination’s top legislative body, revises and approves the Book of Discipline every four years.

A free online version is now offered by Cokesbury. This book can be searched and read on screen in your internet browser. Some other versions listed in the sidebar on the right have a cost.

To view the online version, click on the cover for the book to open and turn the pages with arrow keys. A menu at the top of the screen lets you set different options for how it looks on screen layout and font size. Use ESC key to close the book and return to Cokesbury.

Latest info from UMW Online Community

The current reading lists are 2008-2012, with titles from the 2007 reading list creditable until the end of December 2012.

The Mission Studies are included in the Reading Program, however unlike the books they do not fit neatly into categories. They are created under these themes: spiritual growth, geographic, and issue. So in order to fit them nicely into the RP categories, we put geographic into EFM and issue into SA.

Large Print books will fall into a category even if they have not been designated as such. The content will determine where it fits.

Read these now for this year's Reading Plans

We have books from 2006 and 2007 that can only be counted if you read them now. These will qualify for the 2011-2012 Reading Program to be reported by July 1, 2012. See the Read Now list on my Google Books library page for book details. Let's make use of these while they can still be credited to our current reading.

EM  The Kite Runner
EM  Standing Alone
SA   God in the Alley
SA   Blood Done Sign My Name - Audiobook CDs
SA   The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight
SG   Joshua's Bible - Audiobook CDs
SG   Miriam, Mary and Me
SG   Breakfast Epiphanies
SG   But Lord, I Was Happy Shallow
SA/Y  The Red Rose Box - Audiobook CDs
SA/Y  Kira-kira - Audiobook CDs
SG/Y  Dinner with a Perfect Stranger - Audiobook CDs

Two books are currently missing and there is no record of who has them. We hope they will be returned to the church library or else recorded as checked out by whoever has them.
EM/Y  Facing the Lion and
SG  A Gift for all People

More audiobooks for the church library

Two of these are from the Youth category, and therefore are shorter books. All three will qualify for the 2011-2012 Reading Program to be reported by July 1, 2012.

             

Blood Done Sign My Name  2006 Social Action
Mr. Tyson was 10 years old when violence and fear enveloped his town, and his father (Methodist pastor) pleaded for peace and justice. After 30 years, Tyson returns to Oxford, N.C. to make sense of a brutal murder and its repercussions in that town during the 1970s.

The Red Rose Box  2007 Social Action/Youth
On her tenth birthday, Leah Hopper receives a surprise gift: a traveling case decorated with red roses from her glamorous aunt Olivia. Filled with shiny jewelry, expensive soaps, silk bedclothes, and train tickets to visit Olivia in Los Angeles, the red rose box introduces Leah to a life she never knew was possible.

Kira-kira   2007 Social Action/Youth
When sisters Katie and Lynn and their family move from a Japanese community in Iowa to the deep south of Georgia, it’s Lynn who explains to her why people stop them on the street to stare. And it’s Lynn who, with her special way of viewing the world, teaches Katie to look beyond tomorrow. But when illness causes the family to start to fall apart, it is up to Katie to find a way to remind them all that there is always something glittering – kira-kira – in the future. 

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