Rev. Falwell has served as senior pastor since June of 2007, after his father, Rev. Jerry Falwell (founding pastor of TRBC), passed away. He has been in full-time ministry since 1994 and has been married to his wife Shari since 1992. They have four children and one granddaughter; Jonathan Jr. and wife Paige and granddaughter Olivia (born August 2020), Jessica and husband Matt Holcomb, twins Natalie and Nicholas and wife Abby.

Ed is a professor and dean at Wheaton College who also serves as Executive Director of the Wheaton College Billy Graham Center. He has planted, revitalized, and pastored churches, trained pastors and church planters on six continents, has earned two master’s degrees and two doctorates, and has written hundreds of articles and a dozen books. He is regional director for Lausanne North America and publishes research through Mission Group. He serves as teaching pastor at Highpoint Church in Chicago and has been the interim teaching pastor at Moody Church in downtown Chicago.