Rev. Edwin E. Judd

Edwin Judd was born in Oregon, on May 7, 1923, to parents that had embraced the Apostolic faith in 1912. He was baptized in the name of Jesus at fourteen years of age and received the baptism of the Holy Spirit at the age of sixteen. He married Evelyn Minor in 1943.They had two children, Donna and Stephen, both of whom are actively involved in ministry to this day.

He served two years in the military during and following World War II with sixteen months overseas in India, Burma and China, serving most of this time as a chaplain’s assistant.

He graduated from Pentecostal Bible Institute, Tupelo, Mississippi, with a Bachelor of Theology and from Cascade College, Portland, Oregon, with a Bachelor of Arts in Education. He was granted Local License with the UPC in 1947, and was ordained in 1951.

He served five years as Dean of Faculty at Pentecostal Bible Institute. During this time, he pioneered a rural church near Shannon, Mississippi.

He served twelve years as Dean-Registrar of Conquerors Bible College, Portland, Oregon, and two years as President of CBC.

During the late ‘50s and early ‘60s he was Sunday School Director of the Northwestern District. At the same time, he authored the entire Adult Teacher’s Quarterly for several years. While involved at Conquerors Bible College, he pioneered the UPC in Oregon City, Oregon.

As an outgrowth of his exposure to the work of missionaries while serving overseas, from his early days in Bible College he felt definitely called to become a strong promoter of the foreign missionary cause as part of his ministry. Throughout his nineteen years of Bible College ministry, he was instrumental in keeping the challenge of the Great Commission constantly integrated into the entire Bible College program. Consequently, a relatively large number of former students became and still are missionaries at this time.

He was appointed as a pastoral member to the Foreign Missions Board in 1963, and has served continuously for 49 years.

In 1968, he resigned his Bible college presidency to become the first Promotional Director of Foreign Missions with the mandate to introduce the Faith Promise Concept of foreign missions support throughout the UPCI.

Soon after assuming this position and with the assistance of many, he was instrumental in designing the Partners In Missions program and with the approval of the Foreign Missions Board and General Board, introduced this program of missionary support in the 1969 General Conference.

In 1972, he became the first Regional Field Supervisor for the Latin American Region which encompassed all of South America, Central America, and the Caribbean Islands.

Upon the retirement of Paul H. Box in 1976, he was appointed as General Secretary of Foreign Missions and served in this capacity for twenty-one years until his retirement in 1996 at the age of seventy-three.

Upon his retirement, the Judds took up residence in Jonesboro, Arkansas, and became active in that church where Stephen Judd was pastor. When Stephen Judd was called to become the President of Tupelo Children’s Mansion in 2001, they gladly moved to Tupelo where they had lived for eight years at the start of their ministry. Since that time he has filled an active role on the staff at Tupelo Children’s Mansion, serving a number of years as Comptroller and now as Human Resources and Payroll Manager and Senior Advisor.

He is an active member of Life Church – Tupelo and occasionally ministers in the pulpit as preacher and Bible teacher.

Early in 2004, his beloved wife of over sixty years passed on to her eternal reward. While Evelyn was not personally involved in the limelight of public ministry, she was a faithful, loyal, and dedicated companion in ministry, always willing to make any sacrifice required to do the will of God wherever He called and to whatever work.

He passed from this life on May 18, 2016.