Having seen first hand the benefits of church attendance (through an ideal childhood, through the leukemia and brain tumor in her only children, through four decades of marriage to a high school sweetheart), author Judy Chatham has written Picnic on the Grounds as an endorsement for aligning oneself with a church congregation.

The shocking opening of the book, the story of the near-bombing of the YWCA is enough to justify taking a look at this book. Yet that incident merely illustrates the problem. Judy provides the solution to the problem of an individual's often unlovely nature, followed by an abundance of win-win thoughts for the person who concludes the organized church, and all that it stands for, is no longer relevant to modern living.