Thanks to an unexpected windfall, Sam Gardner's congregation (spare a few malcontents) is eager to expand their meetinghouse. Before building can commence, the County Environmental Board and the Department of Natural Resources discovers a colony of endangered Indiana bats have made the tree beside the meetinghouse, and the meetinghouse attic, their place of hanging, mating, and living, which poses a big problem for the congregation. Aside from the fact that their fanged visitors are engaging in sinful acts on church property, until these bats leave for hibernation, Hope Friends Meeting is left without a gathering place. And when an over-zealous Leonard Fink takes matters into his own hands, he may land himself -- and Sam -- in jail.
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