Larry Eddings was born the last of eleven children into a migrant worker's family. He grew up with a strong work ethic and an awareness of the many varieties of lifestyles represented in the human family. At the age of fifteen he met his future wife to be at a summer church camp. They were married upon graduation from highschool, and at this writing, have been married 61 years. They have two grown children, seven grandchildren and one great grandson. Larry became a Christian and felt called to preach at the age of sixteen and, at the age of nineteen was appointed to a small church in Portland,...