Listre, North Carolina, is jumping. The Sears twins, Ted and Ned, who run a Baptist college, have opened Nutrition House for overweight Christians. Meanwhile their Project Promise is busy matching the educationally disadvantaged with wayward youth who want to share their talents.

Enter Wesley Benfield, a loutish car thief whose crooked teeth and matching soul had been straightened by Mattie Rigsby - until Wesley stands face-to-grill with an unlocked white Continental. He ends up in Project Promise, where he teaches bricklaying to a boy from Special Ed., writes songs for his Baptist band, takes up preaching (of all things), while keeping a lustful eye on a wide, iron-pumping girl over at the Nutrition House. The Lord only knows where Wesley will go from here....
(from the publisher)