Pastor Todd attended Lenoir-Rhyne College, an ELCA college, in Hickory, NC. graduating in 1996 with a degree in Elementary Education. After graduation, he worked in the Admissions Office at Lenoir-Rhyne, travelling the East Coast recruiting students for the college. Simultaneously, he completed a Masters Degree in Agency/Community Counseling and worked as the youth director at Emmanuel Lutheran Church in Lincolnton, NC.

He is a 2004 graduate of the Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary in Columbia, SC.  His first call was to Our Saviour Lutheran Church in Southern Pines, NC. He and his wife Sara were married in 2006.

He served as an interim teacher of Language Arts for 6-8 grades at Epworth Children’s Home, a residential home funded by the United Methodist Church. In June 2006, he began serving Newberry College (an ELCA College) in Newberry, SC as campus pastor.

Pastor Todd's wife Sara graduated from Southern Seminary in May 2008. In early 2008, she was assigned to the Southern Ohio Synods.  Sara serves Epiphany Lutheran Church in Centerville, OH. She was ordained on August 24, 2008.