This is the story of young Robert Anderson's first year as a minister in a small American town in Georgia. When he arrived in Archibald Heights, he discovered that the teachers and books had not fully prepared him for the actual problems and situations that confront a brand new, young parson. Fortunately, the Reverend Jim Forbes could give him some wise advice. THE BRAND NEW PARSON is a novel of people and situations which are compellingly real, of romance which is tenderly appealing, of achievement which is ennobling and significant, and of values which are enduring.