Ted is a Certified Public Accountant with over 30 years of accounting experience emphasizing individual and small business corporate taxation. In addition, Ted has accumulated 28 years of technical and management experience in federal service as an Internal Revenue Agent, Senior Pension Auditor, Supervisor, Department Manager, and Special Assistant to the Deputy Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer.

Ted is a graduate of Bowie State University with a degree in accounting and holds a Masters in Ministry degree from Grace Theological Seminary. As part of 10 years at Waldorf Grace Brethren Church, Ted and his wife, Elise, administrated Total Mobilization Support Ministries. TMSM was a U.S. ministry involving 21 short-term mission projects throughout Latin America and Asia. Ted also served as a representative for Grace Brethren Financial and Estate Planning Ministries for eight years until 2006, and together with Elise led seminars on estate planning, debt-free living and budgeting.

After a few years of long-distance administration with the GBCanada team from Maryland, Ted and Elise became second-career missionaries with the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches. In 2001, they moved to an area outside of Toronto to serve in the church planting ministries of GBCanada. Ted soon became the Director of Finance and Administration. In addition to managing the many legal and fiduciary responsibilities of a growing Canadian fellowship of churches, Ted and Elise are part of the team that launched the Village Community Church in September 2006, the second Grace Brethren church planted in Canada. Ted now serves as an elder and remains active in several other ministry areas of the church. Ted is also a board member and Chairman of the Audit Committee for the Grace Brethren Investment Foundation (GBIF).

Ted and Elise have two married sons: Seth and  wife, Katie, with grandson Austin, and Kyle and wife, Madelein with more grandchildren coming soon. All are living in northern Virginia.