Get Caught Reading This Summer
Are you ready for those hot summer days spent at the beach or lounging in a hammock? Maybe you’re heading out to a cottage in the mountains, a house on the lake, or just to a tent pitched in the backyard!
We know you won’t forget your favorite snacks and sunscreen, but have you made your summer reading list yet?
We’ve gathered our top ten book suggestions from the staff here at Joni and Friends. So, get away from it all this summer and leap into one or two, or maybe all these great reads! Whatever you do… Get caught reading this summer!
Heaven Your Real Home… From a Higher Perspective
By: Joni Eareckson Tada
Drawing on Scripture, Joni Eareckson Tada answers the deepest questions of our hearts about what heaven will be like, who we will see there, and who we will be there. This updated and expanded edition of Joni’s classic, Heaven, brings a new understanding of what heaven is, along with new mysteries and hopes.
Joni is much closer to heaven than she was when she first wrote the book and she says, “I will soon—soon! —hear His voice, look into His eyes, and feel His embrace. And He will say, ‘Welcome home, Joni.’” It is from this vantage point that Joni now speaks about how we can live for Jesus as we look forward to our real home.
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Beyond Suffering Bible
The Beyond Suffering Bible was carefully crafted by our team at Joni and Friends in partnership with Tyndale House Publishers to specifically address the needs of people impacted by disability and those facing chronic conditions. We invite you to help us put the Beyond Suffering Bible into the hands of people who greatly need God’s infinite hope.
The Beyond Suffering Bible includes: Book Intros, Profiles, Devotionals, Connection Points. Bible Version: New Living Translation
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Real Families, Real Needs
By: Joni and Friends
Foreword By: Joni Eareckson Tada
When a family is impacted by disability, everyone’s life changes. Whether you’re a father, mother, sibling, grandparent, or other relative, you have specific questions based on your role in the family as well as unique needs for support.
Real Families, Real Needs not only answers those questions, but also provides godly advice and spiritual hope for the challenges you face. Divided into five sections written specifically for every member of the family, this book offers encouragement, Scriptures to lean on, practical ideas, and more.
Learn from the stories of families like yours and be inspired as they share how God has helped them live victoriously through the challenges of life with disability. Find comfort and peace in a community of people who understand what you face daily. You are not alone!
Hope Heals
By Katherine and Jay Wolf
Katherine and Jay were a young couple living the dream in Southern California. But all is nearly lost when Katherine suffers a shocking near-fatal brainstem stroke, as they struggle to find hope in a life that looks nothing like the one, they had before.
Katherine and Jay, side by side, struggled to regain a life for Katherine as she re-learned to talk, eat, and walk. Katherine returned home with a severely disabled body, but a completely renewed purpose. They committed to celebrate this gift of a second chance by embracing life fully, even though that life looked very different than they could have ever imagined. In the midst of continuing hardships and struggles, both in body and mind, Katherine and Jay found what we all long to find…hope, hope that heals the most broken place, our souls.
Now, eight years later, Katherine and Jay are stewarding their story of suffering, restoration, and Christ-centered hope in this broken world through their ministry Hope Heals.
Another Kind of Courage
By: Doug Mazza and Steve Bundy
For parents, the realization that your child has a disability hits hard. But be encouraged – you are not alone!
Another Kind of Courage will guide men who find themselves in a situation they never expected: leading a family affected by disability. Filled with insights and personal stories from other men who have faced similar situations, this book offers encouragement, strength and hope.
Learn about God’s design for fathers of families impacted by disability and get a valuable look inside the heart and mind of husbands and fathers, gaining insight about their journey guiding a family impacted by disability.
All proceeds from the sale of this book are used to help Joni and Friends ministry programs.
Glorious Intruder
By: Joni Eareckson Tada
From a human perspective, God often appears to be an intruder. He presumes, invades, and infringes upon our lives. At times, He encroaches with gentle, subtle reminders – at others, with sudden, devastating judgement.
God is not tucked away in some far corner of the universe, uncaring, unfeeling, unthinking… uninvolved. You can count on it – He is intimately involved with the tiniest details of your existence.
Learn how God’s constant presence can bring peace, perspective, and healing—even in the most puzzling and chaotic circumstances of your life.
Disability & The Gospel
By: Michael S. Beates
As a parent of a disabled child, Beates encourages believers and churches alike to embrace people and families impacted by disability. In this book you will learn how God uses our brokenness to display His grace.
Beates works through key Bible passages on brokenness and disability while answering hard questions. He shows us how to embrace our own brokenness and then to embrace those who are more physically and visibly broken, bringing hope and vision to those of us who need it most.
Finding God in Hidden Places
By: Joni Eareckson Tada
Bestselling author and artist Joni Eareckson Tada invites readers to join her on a deeply personal journey as she explores the presence of a holy God in hidden places. Stories from her own life shine in this collection of gathered memories. Words of encouragement, comfort, and insight leave the soul satisfied and longing to be closer to a loving Father, who often shows up when least expected.
Finding God in Hidden Places is the perfect size for bedtime reading or taking along for daytime moments of rest and reflection.
Helping Kids Include Kids with Disabilities
By: Barbara J. Newman
Children with disabilities are part of God’s family, but people don’t always treat them that way. In this book you’ll discover how to help kids and their leaders welcome and include kids with disabilities at church or school.
This book is an excellent plan for building awareness among children as you prepare them for their next school year. It teaches them how to understand their peers who have special needs. It is packed with information about specific areas of disability, lesson plans, letters, and devotionals for families.
This book also includes guidelines and forms to help churches identify and meet needs, lesson plans for presenting information on each area of disability, fact sheets about specific disabilities to share with adult leaders, and much more. It’s not just for families, this book is an indispensable resource for teachers, Sunday school leaders, church staff, and anyone who works with children.
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Joni: An Unforgettable Story
By: Joni Eareckson Tada
Foreword by: Francis Chan
In a split second on a hot July afternoon, a diving accident transformed the life of Joni Eareckson Tada forever. She went from being an active young woman to facing every day in a wheelchair. This award-winning story follows Joni’s life as she triumphs over devastating odds to touch countless lives the world with the healing message of Christ.
In this unforgettable autobiography, Joni reveals each step of her struggle to accept her disability and discover the meaning of her life. The hard-earned truths she discovers, and the special ways God reveals his love are testimonies to faith’s triumph over hardship and suffering.
Joni has written an afterword in which she describes the events that have occurred in her life since the book’s publication in 1976, including her marriage to Ken Tada and the expansion of her worldwide ministry to families impacted by disability. Includes photos and illustrations by Joni Eareckson Tada.
