Matthew Todd (MTS, MA, DTL) is the author of Hope Alive: Going and Growing through Pain (2016), English Ministries Crisis in Chinese Canadian Churches (2015), The interface of Percussive arts, religious experience, and sacred Association (2008), and Historical Attitudes that have shaped the Church's use of the Arts (2010). He has taught over thirteen years as an adjunct theology, philosophy, and ethics teacher with L.I.F.E. and P.L.B.C. Canada. The author has served in English ministries in bicultural and bilingual settings as a speaker, counselor, community service worker and ordained English ministries associate track lead pastor. He has assisted amongst Italian, Romanian, Filipino, English, and various Chinese ethnic churches. He has additionally served in the executive leadership of the Chinese churches association in the Mennonite Brethren as a English pastors liaison, in the former Greater Vancouver English Ministries Fellowship (VCEMF - now morphed into what is called Shepherds Circle), helping to plan joint ministerial initiatives and next generation Chinese Canadian events in southern British Columbia. Todd is a Big Band drummer and currently maintains an active writing and itinerant speaking ministry; and a key focus of his written work has been towards the mission longevity and health of English ministry congregations in Chinese bicultural church contexts.
