Forced from the megachurch he founded, a humbled pastor is given a second chance when asked to lead a cowboy church in a small west Texas town—the hometown his wife swore to never return.

SYNOPSIS:

Present day Chisholm, Texas.

An outcast in the evangelical church body and even within his family, MARK STONE, 38, a once successful big-city pastor, has no promising future. At rock bottom, he accepts an offer to pastor the Chisholm Cowboy Church in hopes that moving to his wife’s hometown will be the answer to his prayers and heal his broken family.

For PATRICIA STONE, this move isn’t just a setback, it’s a tragedy. At seventeen she ran away from Chisholm and swore to never return and resents Mark and God for her new life sentence. Patricia rightly suspects her mother as the instigator of Mark’s new appointment, not for the benefit of the church or the community, but solely to bring Patricia home—regardless of the cost.

Mark is a fish out of water. Hay farms, cattle ranches, wind turbines, and oil wells surround the Chisholm Cowboy Church. The church members are cowboys, cowgirls and easygoing small-town folk. Mark wants to lead his household, his church, and his community, he just doesn’t know how.

In Chisholm, Mark learns to be a husband to his wife, a father to his children and true to his faith, as he focuses his ministry outside the walls of the church and inside the walls of his home.

The patriotic, heroic, and value-based roots of the legendary American cowboy coupled with the novelty of the cowboy church movement bring a unique charm to the setting of THREADS.