Mildred Budge in Embankment

A sudden plunge off the road. A stranded pulpit committee. And the true meaning of being saved.

Mildred Budge expected a routine church assignment when she joined her congregation’s pulpit committee on a road trip to hear a prospective new preacher. Instead, a sudden turn of the steering wheel sends their car sailing right over a steep embankment. In those terrifying, fleeting seconds of flight before the crash, each passenger experiences a quick flash of profound insight—shattering their illusions about what they truly want out of life.

Stranded together in the ravine where they landed, Mildred, a serial widow named Liz, and the rest of the committee must figure out how to survive the wreck and work together to get back home.

Cut off from their normal routines, the quiet and confidential conversations that unfold in the wreckage change everything. As secrets come to light and true motivations are revealed, the physical struggle to climb out of the ravine becomes a powerful, living metaphor for the gospel itself. Mildred and her companions quickly realize that what they really want is not what they thought—and that the message of "Jesus saves" is something that must be lived out, one hard step at a time.

With its gripping premise, quiet Southern wit, and deeply authentic faith-driven characters, Mildred Budge in Embankment is a moving, thought-provoking journey. It is a story about real people who know the gospel, believe it, and must learn what it truly means to be rescued.

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