Margie Briggs' book Can You Just Give Them Until Christmas is the turnaround story of a small town minister and two tiny, rural churches. This book describes the decade-long journey of a second-career lay minister and her Midwestern parishioners, who decided to do ministry, mission, and out-reach together with the unchurched and de-churched people in their towns. By telling the history of the countless setbacks and little wins the ministry experienced getting the community involved again, a story of perseverance, prayer, and revolution was born. As the book continues, the reader begins to appreciate the transformation in involvement of the two fledging congregations, seeing how hardwork in small, viable, and vibrant communities of faith can exist and be maintained in small-towns across rural America.