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2016 Winter Reading Challenge: Say No to Mental Hibernation!

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It’s winter, but instead of curling up on the couch with tea or hot cocoa to watch hours and hours of shows and movies, enter the Bibliopolis U Winter Reading Challenge at Gracepoint Berkeley church! It’s open to anyone in Element youth group all the way up to the least young of us. 🙂

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What do I need to do?

  1. Start READING a Christian book. You can buy your books online or at the Book Fair at church this Sunday or throughout the week. Or borrow from a friend or one of your staff. Or listen to an audiobook!
  2. LOG your reading.  Submit your information on the OFFICIAL READING CHALLENGE FORM. Then add your 2-3 sentence (or more) comment about what you appreciated most about the book. You can find links to the books on the Winter Reading Challenge 2016 page. You can also find a red link to it at the top of the home page.
  3. Once you read 5 books, you’ll WIN a $20 gift certificate to the GP Bookstore!*

Happy reading! Will you be participating? What book are you going to be reading first?

*Yes, if you read 10 books, you’ll win $40…and so on.

1st Bingo Winner!

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Just 10 days into the Bibliopolis U Summer Reading Challenge and we have our first Bingo winner over at Gracepoint Berkeley church! Being the first, Andrew makes many constituencies proud: bragging rights to a2f Berkeley, Class of 2016 college graduates, MCAT studiers around the world, and the general Brohirrim of Gracepoint.

For those of you who are curious, Andrew completed the middle line. He read some legit books, including The Hobbit, The Case for Faith, and notably, the Christian Heroes series biography on…Brother Andrew (not him!). And like many of you who have told me, he has a strategy of which line he’ll be reading next.

I know some of our other churches across Gracepoint Ministries will be launching their own summer challenges soon. I’m looking forward to celebrating our readers everywhere!

Bibliopolis U Summer Reading Challenge!

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Over at Gracepoint Berkeley church, we have had over 110 people get free 5th books this past semester. And I know there are some of you who read but opted not to take a free book — that’s a lot of reading we’ve done together. In fact, my informal survey results of college and post-college folks are in, and we have read over 750 books! That is pretty awesome.

With summer upon us, and building on the reading momentum of this past semester, I’m setting my sights on a collective 1,000. What do you say?

To help us in this endeavor, I am pleased to unveil our Summer Reading Challenge. It’s a bingo-style board that gives you multi-disciplinary categories of books to read. In addition to this past semester’s Christian book reading challenge, you’ll notice some fiction and non-fiction included. You can find a link to an in-progress list of possible suggestions for those squares on the Bibliopolis U Recommended Reading List page.  Last but not least, there are some Bible squares for those of you who have Bible-reading goals for the summer!

For each bingo line you complete (up to 5), you can win a free book. Read the entire board and you’ll be in for a special prize.

Click on the game board to download one for yourself!

“But I didn’t even finish my four books yet!!” If this is you, you’ll notice that all is not lost — you can transfer up to 2 books from your in-progress 1st bookmark. This doesn’t apply to those of you who are on book 8 or 23!

You’ll notice there is a spot at the bottom to include your ministry group affiliation. There may or may not be a prize for the group that read the most books (per capita, to be fair).

You can always contact me directly if you have specific questions regarding any book you’re hoping to apply towards the challenge. Happy reading!

Are you up for the challenge? Which bingo line are you going to start with? Are you in the middle of a book right now that you can use on the board? 🙂