Welcome to the Jesus Calling Podcast. Our guests today have both experienced encouragement

from someone who believed in them, their mothers. Our first guest is Jeff

Hosteller, a Super Bowl champion quarterback who led the New York Giants to their win in Super Bowl 25.

Some one and a half months after starting quarterback Phil Sims went out for the year with a broken foot.

Jeff shares the ups and downs frustration. went out for the year with a broken foot.

Jeff shares the ups and downs, frustrations, and rewards of his football career and celebrates the woman who never stopped praying for him

and reminding him who's he was,

and that God had a plan for his life, his mom.

Hi, I'm Jeff Hostetler and I played in the NFL for 15 years.

A strong Christian man that loves the Lord and grew up in a great Christian family and

a father of three grown sons. I've got four grandkids and just one heck of a beautiful wife.

I grew up in a small farming town.

I call it a farming town.

It was a rural area and one of seven kids in a Mennonite family.

So we had dairy cows and 18,000 chickens. So we had lots of chores to do outside an awful lot, but grew up in a real strong Christian family.

Mom and dad that led by example, my mom was the glue.

She was a strong woman of faith

and believed in the power of prayer.

And every day, you know, we knew where she stood.

She loved the Lord, and she passed that on to us, all seven kids.

Growing up, Mennonite, they were always a tight-knit community and whenever something would happen that was negative or bad

People all over the community all over the state would come to help.

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