Rev. Edwards is a graduate of Amherst College, Yale Divinity School and Case Western Reserve University, where he received a Ph.D. in Education. He has served pastorates in Ferndale, Saginaw and Midland, MI, and Cleveland Heights, OH and is the founding pastor and Pastor Emeritus of St. Andrews Presbyterian Church in Beulah. His family has summered on the north shore of Crystal Lake since 1903.