Prior to serving with us, Eddy served as a missionary with the International Mission Board to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for sixteen years. Eddy served as Executive Secretary of the Baptist Association on the Ilha do Governador, an area of 500,000 people. He led and coordinated the mission efforts of the Association and also planted Churches. Later the family moved across town and started a church.

Eddy coordinated many volunteer teams that used their talents and gifts in the medical field, evangelism, conducting business seminars, chapel construction, university outreach, sports evangelism, choirs and children’s ministry teams. Prior to appointment Eddy served as a trustee of the IMB. In Brazil he served as a member of the Baptist Theological Seminary Board of South Brazil. He has also pastored Baptist churches in Lake Dallas, Texas and Lincoln, Nebraska.

Eddy and Brenda have four children, three sons and a daughter.