Generations Ministries (GenMin) director
Leader: GenMin Family Ministry and Leadership Ministry
Ted grew up in Indiana. Following high school he entered Ambassador College in Pasadena, California. There he met his future wife, Donna Graves, who grew up in Pennsylvania and graduated from Ambassador. After two years at Ambassador Ted transferred to California State Polytechnic University in Pomona, California where he obtained a bachelor of science degree (with honors) in landscape architecture while working for the Architecture and Engineering Department at Ambassador.
After graduation from Cal Poly, Ted and Donna married and lived for a short time in California where Ted began serving as leader of youth ministry in the GCI Santa Ana congregation. Soon thereafter Ted and Donna moved to Colorado where their two children were born and Ted worked for several years as project manager, then principal/vice president of an urban design and landscape architecture firm. During those years the family attended the Fort Collins GCI congregation where Ted served in preaching, music ministry and youth ministry.
In 1987 Ted was ordained and began full-time employment in GCI pastoral ministry. The family moved to Kansas where Ted served as associate pastor of the Kansas City South and Topeka, Kansas congregations. In 1990 they moved back to to Colorado where Ted served as senior pastor of the Grand Junction and Craig, Colorado congregations. During the years in Western Colorado Ted also served as district youth ministry coordinator and completed a masters degree (with honors) in psychology (emphasis in family ministry and counseling) from Regis University in Denver.
In 1997 the family moved to Ohio where Ted served for three years as senior pastor of the Akron and Canton congregations. In 1999 Ted began working as a district superintendent. He also started work on a master of arts in Christian studies degree from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School where he graduated (with hightest honors) in 2007.
In 2000 Ted began serving as the co-director of GCI's national youth ministry. That ministry was broadened and renamed Generations Ministries in 2005 with Ted currently serving as director. Ted also serves as a ministry developer in GCI's ministry development team. He is certified by Sonlife Ministries as a trainer for youth ministry and church health seminars. His focus in all of this work is bringing glory to God by multiplying servant-leaders who build cross-generational, cross-cultural faith communities that live and share the gospel.