EDDIE DONNALLY AND HIS WIFE SANDI STEELE

EDDIE DONNALLY HAS LIVED A MOST UNUSUAL LIFE

In 1984, while writing for the Dallas Morning News, he became the only former jockey to win an Eclipse Award for Newspaper Writing. He has been a horse racing television show producer and host, professional fund raiser for Racetrack Chaplaincy of America, ordained minister with a Doctor of Ministry degree, and is a professional hospital and hospice chaplain.

A jockey for 19 years, he rode in over 10,000 races at 54 tracks, winning an estimated 1,200. He was once indicted for sports bribery after a botched race fixed by Boston’s infamous Winter Hill Gang. Its leader Whitey Bulger was convicted of killing 11 persons. He lived for a time between the FBI who wanted him to testify against gang members and the gang who threatened to kill him.

On December 16, 1996, a Los Angeles area holding cell filled with what he is convinced was God’s Shekinah Glory, causing him and 11 other prisoners to ask Christ to take over their lives. He left jail to begin his ministry career at the Los Angeles Dream Center, where he met and married his wife, Sandi Steele, and in less than five years was licensed as a Foursquare Gospel minister. In late 2014 he and four other former jockeys founded a group named Jockeys and Jeans, which has to date raised over $3.85 million for their severely injured brothers and sisters.

While a jockey, he published over 100 articles in a score of newspapers and magazines, including the "Washington Post” and “New York Times," and their “Sunday Magazine.” His testimony has been published in magazines and books, including "Chicken Soup for the Recovering Soul,” discussed on radio shows and featured on "The 700 Club.” He and his wife appeared on several Christian Television Network shows. Nearly 12,000 have watched his testimony on his YouTube Channel. He blogs and several are on this site.

His Bio, “Ride the White Horse: A Checkered Jockey’s Story of Racing, Rage and Redemption” has sold over 10,000 copies and gained 82 reviews on Amazon with 80% rated four or five. A sexually abused adolescent, he went back to college in his 60s to earn his Doctorate, chiefly to understand why following a divorce, he sank into illicit sexual relations, attempted suicide, was in two psych wards and became addicted to crack cocaine before redemption came inside a jail’s holding cell. He has taught his course, “Healing from Sexual Abuse” in churches, rehab centers and prisons. He has shared his testimony in at least 50 separate prisons in four states. He also speaks in churches, recovery conferences, and substance abuse rehabs such as Celebrate Recovery and Teen Challenge. He regularly preaches to the homeless at the New Orleans Mission.

His first novel, "Doctrines of Demons” has sold well, and he has shared his end time prophesy on a dozen media outlets and on his YouTube Channel. This time he is back in familiar territory with his horse racing-based novel, “The Golden Altar: Selling Souls

for a Horse with No Name.

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God has called Rev./Dr. Eddie Donnally to bring others to Christ, inspire other Christians to good works and bring the love of Jesus through physical and spiritual healing to the homeless, the hurting, those in prisons, hospitals and in hospice care. This non-prophet is registered with the IRS, and all donations are tax deductible.

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Eddie Donnelly Books

Doctrines of Demons: The New Age Dawns: A “fallen pastor” battles fallen angels

The Golden Altar: Selling Souls For A Horse With No Name
A formerly barred jockey battling addiction, the fledgling female trainer he loves, and her criminal father race a mysterious, super-talented horse with no legal papers all the way to the Kentucky Derby while a crusading track detective is fixated on foiling their ringer scheme and putting them in jail.

Ride the White Horse: A Checkered Jockey's Story of Racing, Rage and Redemption
“I’ve experienced racing from the hooves up, rage from the inside out and redemption from heaven down,” says author Eddie Donnally

BELOW IS A LIST OF HIS VIDEOS AND DESCRIPTIONS

HEALING FROM SEXUAL ABUSE

This is a subject he knows experientially, physiologically and spiritually. As an adolescent he was molested by a stepbrother and in his 60s returned to college to obtain a Doctor of Ministry degree, chiefly to learn why he became so despondent he tried to commit suicide, was in two psych wards, became addicted to illicit sexual encounters and crack cocaine. When he saw God’s Shekinah Glory in a San Pedro CA holding cell on Dec. 16, 1996, he found forgiveness for his abuser and has been in full time Christian Ministry since. He has shared his training in churches, rehab centers, prisons, and on his YouTube Channel.

Statistics show that up to 50% of the homeless, and incarcerated males were sexually abused. With women; 70% of those in prisons have suffered sexual abuse. There is no greater physiological indicator of homelessness and incarceration. He considers it his ministerial duty to help others heal as God healed him. His Video on healing from sexual abuse is below, and if you email him, he will send a copy of his training and personally work with you to institute it.

Luke 4:18 “The Spirit of the LORD is upon Me, Because He has anointed Me To preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed; and to declare the acceptable year of the Lord.”

PRISON MINISTRY

In 2019 Eddie and wife Sandi purchased a motorhome in Florida and set out for Texas. He left positions as a PRN chaplain at Morton Plant Hospital in Clearwater FL and his working 20 weekend hours for Suncoast Hospice. He planned to speak in 20 prisons but was told by a Texas prison minister who knew the prison system there, it would never happen. He spoke in 30. And miraculously when they returned, both his positions were still intact.

He has also preached in prisons in Florida, Mississippi and Louisiana, bringing the total to at least 50. It’s fertile ground for salvation and at least 700 came to know the Lord as Savior. He is still active in the prison ministry, and said, “I will continue as long as I can walk and talk. I declare the following verse over myself every morning when I wake up.”

Isaiah 40:31.“But those who wait on the LORD Shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.”

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THE POWER OF ONE YOUTUBE CHANNEL MINISTRY

“You in Jesus and Jesus in You is the Power of One”

His YouTube Channel “Eddie Donnally the Power of One” features interviews with famous Christians, Bible based opinions on future events such as the rapture and Christ’s return, the true nature of spacecraft and space aliens, deliverance ministry, human trafficking, disaster chaplaincy, God’s End Time Army, how to prepare for and thrive during what he is convinced is today’s perilous times and much more. It also includes his testimony, watched by nearly 12,000 people.

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Videos also include his street ministry, which while sometimes dangerous are important to him and his wife. They started ministering in the streets shortly after he left the jail cell and began living at the Los Angeles Dream Center where he met and married Sandi Steele. Twenty-seven years later, God called him back to preaching on the streets. Working under the New Covenant Fellowship Church in nearby Metairie, you can meet him and his evangelical crew preaching and ministering to the homeless in the famous New Orleans Jackson Square. They preach and pray among fortune tellers, tarot card readers and Voodoo Bone readers. They also feed, clothe and preach to the homeless and share the Gospel with the hundreds who flock to the nationally known landmark. They have led many to Christ and placed several in local Christian rehab facilities. Donnally said, “Though the Lord has always protected us, we have been confronted by satanists, cursed, often given the one finger salute, and I even had whiskey thrown into my eyes. But I know God is blessing our group because of the persecution.”

Matthew 5:10-12 “ Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.11 Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake. 12 Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.”

Below, you can watch gang member Michael threaten his life and throw water at Sandi and him (at least they hope it was water). But after passing out clothing there, including some to Michael, he allowed Donnally to pray for him and became their unofficial protector. Some 56,000 have viewed this short video of our confrontation on our YouTube Channel and if you watch don’t forget to hit the bell and subscribe.

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Acts 1: 8 “But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be]witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

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JOCKEYS AND JEANS

To raise funds for his fellow jockeys who no longer ride racehorses but wheelchairs, Donnally and four other former jockeys formed the all-volunteer organization in late 2014. He served as President for a short time then nominated Barry Pearl, who was President until resigning in June 2023. Donnally. Vice President during those years, became Interim President when Pearl retired. Through an annual charity event and annual stallion season sale, the group raised $3.85 Million for Permanently Disabled Jockeys Fund. The charity pays a $1,500 stipend to 55 permanently disabled jockeys. From February of 2024 until February of 2025 Jockeys and Jeans raised a single year record of $458,000. Donnally resigned in March 2025 to commit more time to his evangelical ministry but became one of its Ambassadors who advocates for the cause to aid disabled jockeys

Acts 1: 8 “But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be]witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

Donnally is in the brown shirt, kneeling beside two former jockeys in wheelchairs and behind a depiction of a check to PDJF for $60,000. Surrounding him are eight other former jockeys in wheelchairs, 16 Hall of Fame Jockeys and Gulfstream Park Jockeys.

Acts 1: 8 “But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be]witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”