Over at Gracepoint Berkeley church, the first ever Winter Reading Challenge ended last Friday. Thanks to everyone who participated! I was personally blessed and encouraged by people’s comments. Many went well above & beyond the 2-3 sentence comments, and I feel like I got to know some of the people who were posting. 🙂
It was the most challenging challenge we’ve had thus far — reading 5 books in 5 weeks — and we had 37 people complete it. We even had several people complete the challenge two or three times!
They’ve won their very official looking gift certificates to the GP Bookstore:
Since we don’t have those nifty polaroid looking pictures like we have for past challenges, I will list them here on the official winner board.
- Amanda Gee
- Angel Lam
- Anna Liu
- Brandon Fong
- Carol Yang (Homegroup RED-HD, woot!)
- Chris Le
- Chris Liu
- David Lee
- Elaine Escalona
- Emily Huang (making us Emilys proud!)
- Emily Rah (another Emily!)
- Grace Choi
- Hallie Honma
- Hannah Ling
- Hernan Kim
- Jana Guan
- Jenn Chen
- Jenny Young (most senior winner – TOTC Sisters represent!)
- Jessica Gao
- Josephine Gao
- Joshua de la Paz
- Kaylin Le
- Kevin Lin
- Krystal Han
- Laura Kim
- Lillian Ji
- Louis Chen
- Marty Krakora
- Michael Kramer (most # of books logged)
- Mike Park
- Percival Chen
- Roanna Lin
- Sally Cho (twin winners!)
- Sarah Cho (twin winners!)
- Stephen Cheng
- Victoria Chan
- William Shen
For those of you who are into stats, here is a breakdown:
- Total winners: 37
- By gender:
- Sisters: 24
- Brothers: 13
- By class:
- Freshmen: 2
- Sophomores: 4
- Juniors: 8
- Seniors: 12
- Beyond!: 11
- By ministry group (includes ministry staff):
There were a total of 298 books officially logged for this challenge! There were also 35 books people submitted on the form but did not post comments for, and countless other people told me they had been reading but hadn’t logged. I actually didn’t log any of my reading either! 🙂 All of this to say that we read a whole lot as a church this winter break, and I’m looking forward to reading even more this spring.
Can you guess what our Spring Reading Challenge will be? Post your guesses and/or suggestions in the comments below. 🙂
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