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How does Eddie do it—and how can you help?

The Rich Family In Church

• Original article
• Original article in German
(MS Word file)
• Response
• Responses to the response
• Update on the author's life
• How to help Eddie

Eddie's 1,000 hours of agriculture surveys each year for the last 13 years support not only her writing, but also her travel and resulting projects. Mission trips have taken her to China, Africa, Russia, Poland, Belgium, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Korea, Japan, and Mexico. [Take a breath.] And Jamaica, Hong Kong, Austria, India, Israel, Netherlands, Tanzania, Kenya, Ghana, and Egypt.

Eddie still wants to get to Brazil.

Through these trips and her correspondence with missionaries, Eddie comes up with plenty of projects:

Thus far, more than 3,000 quilts for children in Egypt, Korea, Siberia, Romania, Japan, Africa, and the USA. [Jeans quilts are Eddie's specialty. "Kids like it when you put a pocket on a block." A missionary in Japan recently requested these quilts for a worship service he began so attendees can wrap up during Japan's cold winters.]
For orphanage children in Siberia, Eddie has knit more than 1,100 hats and purchased another thousand.
For AIDS orphans in South Africa, she has sewn and stuffed 500 rag dolls; 350 more are on order.
Last year, Eddie and Phil bought more than two thousand pairs of shoes for children a missionary works with in Siberia and the Ukraine. Shoe clerks at Wal-Mart and Payless ShoeSource know the couple well, alerting them to sales and giving them their own lane for checkout as they load carts with hundreds of shoes at a time.

Book of Hope
Eddie and Phil have many projects to help meet human needs, but one project in particular snags their heart. The Book of Hope, a chronological compilation of the four Gospels, is distributed to children and youth worldwide. The simply worded story of Jesus Christ has been given to children in 44 languages in 90 countries. One dollar pays for three books.

Every year, Eddie and Phil pay for three thousand books through a special project of their own: cleaning bathrooms. This three-times-a-year job started 17 years ago when they first cleaned the bathrooms and grounds of the Northeast Washington Fair. They did such a fine job that they were asked to clean up after the Colville, Washington, Father’s Day Rodeo. Then the next town over requested their services for Town and Country Days.

A friend often buys the envelopes in bulk for Eddie. Another friend contributed $100 a month toward the prizes in the letter, but he recently passed away. The printer often refuses payment, instead telling Eddie to “buy more shoes for the orphans.” “And I do,” Eddie says. “I never pocket the money.”

To contribute to Book of Hope, go to their Web site. To help pay for Eddie’s monthly letters or any of her other projects, you may make a tax-deductible gift to:

Colville Assembly of God
516 E. Glenn
Colville, WA 99114

Write “Eddie Ogan’s ministry - Mikey's Funnies” in the memo line.

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