Missionary / Evangelist, Founder of IMI
Brother Ed Anthony

In 1983 Brother Ed Anthony was the originator of the Government Street Baptist Chapel in Pensacola, Fl. This was the first out reach by the SBC’s Pensacola Bay Baptist Association to the African-American community.

From there Brother Anthony became the Singles Minister at West Pensacola Baptist Church. There he wrote his first book, “Single, Not my choice”. This was a self-help recovery workbook for those going through Death or Divorce.

In September 1988, Brother Anthony was called as pastor to Corrydale Baptist Church by the twelve remaining members. In fifteen months the church was listed in the Florida Baptist Witness as the #10 church in the state for “member-to-baptism ratio” and the #10 church, state wide for “percentage-of-non-designated-gifts” given to the Cooperative program. (January 11, 1990 issue.)
While at Corrydale Brother Anthony developed contacts in the former Soviet Nations that would lead to his on going missions work there. From there Brother Anthony moved to Walton County to become the pastor of New Harmony Baptist Church. Here he established a radio ministry on several stations and was heard every Saturday morning across much of south Alabama and northwest Florida.

In September 1995, Brother Anthony resigned from New Harmony Baptist Church and organized IMPACT MINISTRIES Inc. to enter into full-time mission work. Brother Anthony teaches at the Khmelnitskiy Regional Bible Institute, Ukraine which is accredited by The East European Seminary. He develops programs for planting churches, training teachers and church leaders and has conducted seminars on sermon preparation and delivery. He specializes in training “equippers” for the local church to be able to properly disciple their new converts. He has also preached crusades in small village churches as well as large regional churches.

From 1995 - 2004 IMPACT MINISTRIES was involved in planting sixteen new churches in the Khmelnitskiy Region. Out of those original churches there are as of (2004) 38 self-supporting churches. They are all functioning with the IMPACT MINISTRIES “discipling technique” for planting churches and teaching others this formula for church planting. IMPACT MINISTRIES Inc. operates under the principle that it is more cost efficient for us to train and equip nationals to reach and disciple their own people than maintain a foreign missionary on the field full time. IMPACT MINISTRIES Inc. helps maintain full-time Nationals on the field through the Regional Bible Institute.

Brother Anthony accepts invitations on a first call, first calendar date filled, for a love offering only, regardless of the size of the church. Brother Anthony preaches revivals, conducts mission conferences and disciple equipping courses for local church “equippers.” He also conducts special preparation classes to train pastors and church leaders in establishing and conducting an active, ongoing short-term missions program within their own churches.