Edwards, Tom & Connie

Tom and Connie have been missionaries with Mission to the World since 1988. They served in a medical and church-planting ministry for 10 years in West Africa. In 2000 Tom and Connie returned to Birmingham, Ala., and are currently involved in leading short-term medical and children’s ministry teams to work with churches in Africa and Haiti.

In addition to leading short-term teams overseas, they both felt called to minister in the inner city. Connie is a math teacher at Restoration Academy, an urban Christian school in the Birmingham area. In 2003 Tom, a physician, started Hope Health Center whose goal is to provide excellent medical care to low-income and uninsured patients. Tom and his staff desire that every patient would encounter the love of Jesus and be drawn closer to Him as a result of their experience with Hope Health Center.

They have three married children, Christine, Emily, and Blake, and several grandchildren.