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As a young man, Ted Pollock longed to be a foreign missionary, but believed God only sent doctors, preachers, teachers, and those with college degrees. Bored with school, Pollock had dropped out of seventh grade during the Depression, so all he had to offer God was his two hands. Fortunately for thousands of people worldwide, Pollock was wrong. He had exactly the skills and heart needed to be a missionary: For almost seven decades, he’s worked as Christ’s globe-trotter, a mission builder tangibly demonstrating the servant message of the gospel. Building hospitals and schools, designing windmills to provide irrigation, and engineering innovative housing that is economic and useful in remote locations, Ted Pollock has always helped people with his hands-on missionary work.
A native of Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, Pollock has been a missionary for fifty-eight years. He and his late wife, Dolly, raised seven children on the mission field: Edward, Penny, Bill, Ron, Leah, Tom, and Ginny. He teamed up with Beverly Reeve, a neighbor in the picturesque town of Pittsford, New York, and fellow member of the First Presbyterian Church of Pittsford, to document his missionary adventures. Together, they poured through missionary documents, newsletters, and memorabilia, reviewing the wonders and richness of Pollock’s missionary experiences that span more than half a century. A journal keeper since his Boy Scout days, Pollock used the more than eighty-five volumes he’d filled as the basis for this autobiography.
Like his cowriter, Reeve is a native of Pennsylvania where she studied sociology and social work at Bloomsburg University. She joined Ted Pollock on a mission trip to Mozambique in 2003 to build a church. She and her husband, Charles Allan Reeve, have three children, Jocelyn, Meagen, and Erin.
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