This is a set of five shorts stories that chronicle the changes taking place in a church when a new pastor takes over from one who has been in place for twenty years. They are five short romances, most with a comedic bent that will thrill the romance lover in anyone.

Ida Little, a nineteen year old woman from Dallas, has just been told she has seven months to leave her parents' house and all she's ever known. Her parents expect her to marry, but she's so shy she can barely speak to a man she doesn't know well. When Sally Jenkins approaches her at the mercantile where she works, she agrees to join Sally's program for "mail order ministers" providing wives for ministers who have graduated from the seminary where her husband is president. Joshua Anderson is tired of being alone, but he's even more tired of his church members trying to marry him off to girls...