100-year-old Eva Bossenberger is using her talents to bring glory to God through Operation Christmas Child.
Most mornings Eva wakes up between 3-4am and heads for her sewing machine. She’s a woman on a mission with no time to waste.
At the end of last year, Eva’s pastor asked her to make about 180 items for girls that could be packed in Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes. Eva didn’t have to think long before she knew what she’d do.
Eva Bossenberger is making dresses that will soon be packed in shoeboxes and distributed to little girls across the world who need to hear the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Eva, who lives in Zionsville, North Carolina told operation Christmas child “At first it took me a day and a half to make a dress. Now, I can get three done in a day,”
Eva learned to sew while growing up near Detroit, Michigan. Her father worked at the Ford factory and her mother was a furrier and seamstress.
Widowed at age 36, Eva worked as a police officer and grocery cashier and in other jobs as her children grew up. She’s also been a Sunday School teacher, church choir member, missions supporter, and now dressmaker.
Accustomed to working hard, Eva says she seeks to bring God glory in everything she does.
She says, “Every day needs to be lived serving the Lord,” she said. “When I get up in the morning, I read God’s Word and I try to be a witness where I can.”
Eva prays that the dresses will bring girls across the world much joy. She encourages Christians, no matter their age, to do whatever God has called them to do.