Every Mother’s Day we give accolades for the love and sacrifice of our mothers. But rarely is heard among the world’s Protestant believers a word of praise for Mary, the mother of Jesus and the greatest maternal role model of all time.
Marti and I were leading a 3-month field trip with about 150 students from YWAM Schools of Evangelism in 1974, when Igor strolled into our campsite in Odessa, Ukraine. But it wasn’t Ukraine then, it was the Soviet Union.