Orem Library

Welcome to Harmony ... In this acclaimed inaugural volume i the Harmony series, master American storyteller Phillip Gulley draws us into the charming world of minister Sam Gardner in his first year back in his hometown, capturing the essence of small-town life with humor and wisdom.

In his fifth year of ministering to the citizens of Harmony, pastor Sam Gardner finds himself challenged by Deena Morrison's impending marriage to Dr. Daniel Pierce and the Hodges' possible loss of their daughter to her biological parents.

A Quaker pastor, who unwittingly fills in for a Unitarian minister at a wedding between two women, considers his potential unemployment until a call from a small congregation in Hope, Indiana, has him rethinking his options and his future.

Sam Gardner has been pastor of Hope Friends Meeting for just four months when ninety-eight-year-old member Olive Charles passes away. What's more shocking news is that Olive has left her entire estate--worth nearly one million dollars--to the meeting. At first the gift sounds to Sam like a godsend. Yet as word of the unexpected windfall spreads, it stirs up a storm of conflicting opinions among the church members as to how the money would best be...

Thanks to an unexpected windfall, Sam Gardner's congregation (spare a few malcontents) is eager to expand their meetinghouse. Before building can commence, the County Environmental Board and the Department of Natural Resources discovers a colony of endangered Indiana bats have made the tree beside the meetinghouse, and the meetinghouse attic, their place of hanging, mating, and living, which poses a big problem for the congregation. Aside from the...