Crossings Book Club selection.To their quiet community, David Parst, his wife, Sarah, and their twelve-year-old son, Jack, are the ideal minister's family. Determined and innovative, David has built his tiny suburban church into a regional powerhouse, and along the way has become a local religious celebrity. But a church project throws David together with Erika Balik, a successful female executive, and Sarah senses a troubling change in her husband. During a crowded Sunday service, Erika's usually quiet husband rises hesitantly from his pew to make an announcement. No one can imagine that what he is about to say and do will scandalize their community and thrust the Parsts into a thirty-year struggle with God and one another - a struggle to find something that lasts. Something That Lasts is a touching and sometimes wrenching story of temptation, loss, and forgiveness. It reminds us that in faith and in love, those who persevere receive the reward.