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Expecting to enjoy her empty nest years, Carissa suddenly loses her job. To make matters worse, her husband's burgeoning counseling business now requires him to spend three nights a week away from home. Feeling alone and unloved, she takes advantage of an unusual Maui vacation opportunity to sort out her life.

For eighteen years Roger McKenzie has led a gospel singing group, The Triumphant Voices of Praise. But The Voices have failed to win commercial or critical success. When Roger's leadership is questioned, personal problems threaten to tear the group's close bond apart.

On a road trip, Sister Betty and a gaggle of colorful characters discover what matters most. Sister Betty determines to carry out her friend's last wishes by delivering million-dollar checks to three pastors in Baltimore. Others give chase--hoping to convince her to spread the wealth.

Pastor George Landris has a monumental mandate for his flock. He wants them to cast off their strongholds (i.e., their weaknesses), and this sets off a flurry of soul-searching and repentance with humorous and poignant results.

Aspiring event planner Melissa Anderson falls for the handsome, successful Marcus Peeples. But there's a catch--he's divorced--and Melissa struggles to reconcile this with her spiritual beliefs.

For years, Memory Patterson has been running away from her problems and conning her way through life. Then a chance encounter with Pastor Landris' pregnant wife Johnnie Mae puts her on the path toward meeting the mother she never knew. But a storm is brewing on the horizon, and soon Memory, Johnny Mae, and Pastor Landris will find their faith tested.

Faith Alexandria Morrell and her two sisters guard a dark secret. Needing direction, they join a local megachurch, where they meet people with problems of their own.

Gabrielle's girlhood dream of becoming a dancer slips away when life takes an unexpected turn. But after she meets the man of her dreams at church, everything seems to be falling into place--until a past secret threatens to tear her life all apart and puts her newfound faith to the ultimate test.

Her marriage to a minister compromised by numerous infidelities on both sides, Chyna turns for advice to her sister Janelle, who still harbors resentment for Chyna's affair with Janelle's own husband.

Delilah is in for a few surprises when she decides to come to the rescue of her long-estranged son Jesse--whose wife just died--and her granddaughter Tamara.