Jump Start

It's two days after the Robertson Family Reunion has ended. I'm excited to learn that there's some interest in organizing this blog (or Facebook?) to be a forum for discussing the family book club. It's been titled Nancy's Book Club in honor of Aunt Nancy who passed away last fall. Nancy was an avid reader, and Uncle Paul and Aunt Jeri have decided to provide books-of-the-year to the family to encourage Nancy's spirit of reading and learning.

Blogging is a great way to organize a book club for a group this size (and this far separated geographically). Here's how it works:

• Each year will focus primarily on the current year's book. (But since we have already been through two other books without discussions, you can create a blog post on older books for now.) This year's book is Principle of the Path by Andy Stanley.
  
• Each blog post will address either an entire chapter or a specific idea from a chapter.
• Under each blog post members can comment and continue the discussion with reactions and their own thought of the chapter or idea being discussed.

If you have any questions about blogging, please email me::: Hans.Schiefelbein@gmail.com

I will set up the blog such that anyone can post a comment. HOWEVER, this will work best and look best if each person creates a Gmail account. Gmail is an extremely easy email client to use and organize. It will allow each member to create a profile including a picture so we can easily see who's saying what on each blog post. I would be happy to set up a gmail for you if that would make things easier for you.

So here we go. I'll be moderating throughout the year. If you're only comfortable reading right now, enjoy. But I challenge each person who's going to read Principle of the Path to at least create one blog post before we close up on this book.

Happy reading!!