A robbery, a lynching, and a mourning mother shake up the Yada Yadas.
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. 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 friendship to the limit. And a shocking confrontation in my third-grade classroom forced me to face my own accountability and learn what true forgiveness really is.
Neta (pronounced Nee tuh) Jackson and her husband, Dave, are an award-winning writing team, best known for the Trailblazer books -- a forty-book series of historical fiction about great Christian heroes with 1.5 million in sales -- and "Hero Tales: a Family Treasury of True Stories from the Lives of Christian Heroes" (Vols 1-4). Neta wrote the wildly successful "The Yada Yada Prayer Group" and has collected many honors for her various works, including a C.S. Lewis Award and a Gold Medallion Award.