For book clubs & small groups
Reading Past the Picket Fence with your group?
A free guide for leading your group.
Inside the guide
Ready for your first meeting.
- Questions for every chapterFour for each of the thirteen chapters, written for after you've read it.
- A four-week meeting planChapters 1–3, 4–6, 7–9, and 10–13, or a slower pace if your group prefers.
- Questions for your last gatheringTo look back on the whole story, and on what each of you is carrying forward.
- Notes for leading gentlySome chapters walk through infertility, loss, and grief. The guide helps you hold that space, with passing always welcome.
For book clubs, small groups, women's ministries, or two friends reading together.
For anyone in the space between the life they imagined and the life they actually have.
For groups of five or more
Want Lauren at your table?
If your group of five or more is reading Past the Picket Fence together, Lauren would love to join one of your meetings by Zoom. She joins a limited number of groups each month, so reach out early.
If you've ever felt the quiet grief of unmet expectations or the exhaustion of holding it all together, this book is for you. Lauren Vallotton writes with raw honesty and profound insight. Past the Picket Fence invites readers to release control and trust God to write a more beautiful story than they ever imagined.
Havilah CunningtonAuthor of 15 books, including Stronger Than the Struggle and Created to Hear God
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