This is the true story of my grandfather, Rudolph Heupel, a German born in what was then called South Russia and is now Ukraine. In 1912, at the age of 19 he traveled from his home near the Black Sea to study in Germany. He was caught up in the turmoil of WWI, experienced the privations and tumult of those years. In 1923 he immigrated to the US, was trained as a pastor and served churches in western North Dakota. During the first decades of his ministry...