Tod's Experience: In 1988 Tod McDowell studied in Cabrillo College in Santa Cruz, CA undergraduate studies before going to the University of the Nations in Kona, HI in 1992. Tod completed several missions ministry schools at the University of the Nations including: Discipleship Training School, School of Worship, Biblical Studies School, School of Strategic Missions, Communications Core Course, Biblical Studies Core Course, and Biblical and Missions History Course. Tod staffed many Missions schools including: Discipleship Training School, School of Worship, School of Biblical Studies, and Biblical Studies Core Course. He also served as a school leader and then became the leader of the College of Christian ministries for the University of the Nations campus in Kona, HI. In this role Tod gave leadership to over ten ministry school leaders with a staff that numbered up to fifty people. He helped pioneer new ministry schools on the campus, including the School of Strategic Missions, Biblical Studies Core Course and the School of Jewish Studies.With his staff, he pioneered a campus prayer and worship room with staff positions to sustain it.Tod also served in a local church, Calvary Community Church, with founding pastor David C. Reese-Thomas from 1997 through 2007. Beginning by being appointed as a deacon for three years and then serving as an elder for three years, Tod ended up becoming an ordained pastor in the church in 2002. Under this role Tod preached, counseled, and performed weddings and funerals. He also led prayer initiatives across the state of Hawaii, led evangelistic campaigns for all of the public high schools in our city, and lead an Island-wide torch run that reached over twenty churches and had over sixty participants running and bicycling around the Island of Hawaii over three days. Since 1990 Tod has gone on dozens of missions trips around the world. He has personally evangelized among the unreached peoples in South East Asia as well as in Africa. |