Ed Cannon became the President and CEO of Far East Broadcasting Company in 2012. Prior to joining FEBC, Ed spent 9 years at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago as Executive Vice President and COO.
Currently Ed serves on the Board of Directors for the National Religious Broadcasters (NRB), Hands of Hope (an African Evangelical Relief Organization), Revive Our Hearts, and Focal Point Ministries.
Ed received both a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and an M.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois. Ed worked for over 25 years within the oil industry, including progressive leadership positions with British Petroleum, Amoco and Standard Oil Company.
In 2001, he received an Executive MBA Certificate in Global Business and Finance from a prestigious collaborative program offered through Harvard and Stanford Universities.
Ed and his wife, Mary Jean, have two grown sons.

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thanks for this video. Can you put the video on a mail and /or a share function for Facebook ? I have a Chinese friend who came to Christ, partly through my testimony, and I’d like to share it with her via mail or facebook.
I was a programmer for FEBC in 1975…at KGEI in San Francisco, producing a magazine show for broadcast to Japan in English, along with Mike Sukigara, who produced a simillar show in Japanese..
My broadcasting career, ages ago, was odd: Early on, I programmed Christian themed songs to go with a secular music list at a secular station. Then, at KGEI, I programmed some good secular music to go with Christian music at KGEI. I guess I went full circle in how God used me, in both ways.
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Thanks for your message, Tim! Always great to reconnect with people like you who served with FEBC back in the day! Here’s the link to the video: https://vimeo.com/542213166
Hello from the Philippines. this statistics of christianity in japan is indeed far when compared here in our country. But I believe in the Sovereign plan of God to save to the uttermost that includes Japan. I am considering to work in Japan in the near future, Godwilling, so i wanted to know the situation. It is a privilege to be part of what God is doing through FEBC by being a prayer partner.
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Thank you, Gen, yes there is much work to be done in Japan, but we know He is able.
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This is my 1st time on your website. I learned abour FEBC in one Loren Cunningham’s (founder of YWAM) biographies. I was wondering if you have in your archives stories of the 1st YWAM student missionaries’ experience when they volunteered for FEBC Japan.
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Welcome, Seiji! Unfortunately, no, we don’t have that story in our archives, but if you’d like to explore other stories on our website, you can click on the “STORIES” tab at the top of website navigation bar.