Love's Enduring Promise is a 2004 made-for-television Christian drama film based on a series of books by Janette Oke.

She falls in love with a rich young man called Grant Thomas (Mackenzie Astin) who works on the railroad, and he asks her to dine with him on Saturday.

Missie's father Clark is out cutting wood when he accidentally drops his axe and it hits his leg and badly injures it.

A young man called Willie LaHaye (Logan Bartholomew) is riding past and sees what happened, and quickly gets Clark into his cart and takes him to his home.

Missie has to close the school and work in the fields doing the ploughing because her father can't, and she misses her dinner with Grant.

The following people won a Camie Award in 2005 for their part in making the film: In real life Jones, who portrays Heigl's almost-adult stepdaughter, is 10 months her senior.