She is a very young girl completely alone

and on her own in Judson, a pathetic

ghost town in the middle of the West Texas

desert. She is a redhead of titanic propor-

tions, filled with one mission: to bring the

love of Jesus Christ Our Savior Amen to

all the children of the world. Her only

weapons are a wooden cross (with cut

notches for each saved soul), an em-

bossed Bible (kept snowy white with shoe

polish) and the sayings of Corinda Cassy

(founder of the Invincible Traveling Vaca-

tion Bible School Instructor program and

of Cowgirls for Christ, a band of homeless

teenagers marching in formation and

chanting hymns). She is deeply in love--

but doesn t know it--with a lapsed man-

of-the-cloth whose only real friend is a

noisy rooster and who has a burning yen

for coloring books. She is faced with the

urgent need for baptism in a drought area

(which she instantly solves with pre-

moistened towelettes)...she is ashamed

of the touched--up apparition of Jesus on a

screen door (Judson s sole means of sup-

port)...she becomes, through a vision,

the most popular and miraculous faith

healer of all time, whose love for God

overwhelms and annihilates everything

remaining in her short life. She is Principia

Martindale.