Care Net Board Leadership Coach

                     Founding Executive Director of Skylark,                   a Sexual Health + Care Clinic 

Since 1987, Patrick Eades has participated in culture-of-life ministries. With great pleasure, he served on the steering committee and the original Board of Directors of Skylark, a Sexual Health + Care Clinic, where, in 1992, he was selected as the founding Executive Director. He has had the distinct pleasure of serving the community where he grew up. The ministry has grown from one center with a $28,000 budget to a multi-center operation with over a $1.8 million budget.

Patrick has been a spokesperson for sexual risk avoidance (abstinence) education since 1992. In 1996, he founded the Braveheart Teen Initiative, which involves youth reaching out to youth. As a result, he has provided thousands of presentations, primarily in southeast Georgia, but has had the privilege of international presentations, including five two-week tours of South Africa, where local missionaries started their own Braveheart Teen Initiative.

Patrick has been a Care Net Consultant and Board Leadership Coach since 1999. He attended Georgia Institute of Technology and Oral Roberts University, where, in 1989, he received a bachelor’s degree in pastoral care and counseling. 

He and his wife, Natalie, reside in southeast Georgia, where they raised four children and now have six grandchildren. When he isn’t fulfilling these ministry and family roles, he enjoys aggravating friends, family, and strangers with what he believes to be a sense of humor.