Father pulled over at church in the country (4)
I believe the answer is:
chad
'country' is the definition.
(I know that Chad is a country)
'father pulled over at church' is the wordplay.
'father' becomes 'da' (da can mean dad).
'pulled over' shows that the letters should be reversed in order.
'at' says to put letters next to each other (I've seen this in other clues).
'church' becomes 'ch' (common abbreviation).
'da' reversed gives 'ad'.
'ad' after 'ch' is 'CHAD'.
'in the' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for chad that I've seen before include "small piece forcibly removed" , "Landlocked desert country of northern central Africa, formerly a French colony" , "African country south of Libya" , "Punched paper; African nation" , "foreign land" .)