Jeff and Laura Edwards
Jeff and Laura Edwards
Jeff and Laura Edwards serve in the office of the President for One Mission Society. Jeff has been involved with OMS for more than 35 years and brings extensive experience into his role as OMS’11th President.
Jeff, an OMS missionary kid, grew up in Brazil, where he met Laura and where they later served together for 22 years as OMS missionaries. Their ministry focus included church planting, leadership development, counseling, discipleship, and couples ministries. The couple also accepted positions as professors at Londrina Bible Seminary (LBS), where Jeff served as the president of the LBS board for six years, and Laura directed two graduate programs in counseling.
After returning from South America in 2008, Jeff invested 12 years serving as the OMS regional director for Latin America/Caribbean until June 2020 when he served as the OMS Global Ministries executive director before becoming President in July 2022.
Laura serves in a volunteer capacity with OMS, officially as advisor to the President. She travels with Jeff when her academic calendar allows it.
She currently works full time at Taylor University as a tenured professor and chair of the Psychology Department. Within this setting, she is privileged to minister to many of her students through discipleship and mentoring.
Jeff received a bachelor of arts in education (1986) from Asbury College; a master’s degree in theological studies, with a concentration on church history (1992) from Wheaton College Graduate School; and a doctorate of ministry degree (2008) with an emphasis on pastoral care and counseling from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.
Laura has a master’s degree in clinical psychology from Wheaton College Graduate School and a doctorate in educational psychology from Regent University.
Discipleship and mentoring are their passion. Their goal is to invest in leaders who can multiply themselves, strengthen the church, and give vision to mission-sending around the world.
Jeff and Laura have two daughters: Katie, married to Thiago, and Kendra, married to Mark. They also have four grandsons and one granddaughter.