Matthew Todd, BTh, BGS, MTS, MA, DTL, DMin (cand.), is the author of Hope Alive: Going and Growing through Pain (Mill Lake Books, 2016), Developing Transformational English Ministries in Chinese Churches (Friesen Press, 2016), English Ministries Crisis in Chinese Canadian Churches (Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2015), Historical Attitudes That Have Shaped the Church's Use of the Arts (Word Alive Press, 2010), and The Interface of Percussive Arts, Religious Experience, and Sacred Association (Word Alive Press, 2008). Todd has served for over thirteen years as an adjunct theology, philosophy, and ethics teacher with L.I.F.E. College and P.L.B.C. Canada, has pastored in two congregations, has served as a speaker in multiple cross-cultural contexts, has written for numerous theological and popular journals, and has served on the executive of the Mennonite Brethren Chinese Churches Association (as English pastors liaison) and on the former Greater Vancouver English Ministries Fellowship (VCEMF, now called Shepherds Circle). Currently, he serves as an officer and overseer with the CLIMB Intercultural Society with the goal of developing and mobilizing effective leaders for intercultural challenges. His hobbies include drumming with a big band in the Greater Vancouver area, reading books on cultural studies and theology, and maintaining an itinerant speaking schedule.