Meet Fr. Ted

Fr. Ted grew up in New England, and has family roots in Maine that go back to a time before Maine was a state. In addition, he spent most of his childhood summers in East Orland, where his family had a camp, and in Southwest Harbor with his grandparents. Summers meant digging clams in Trenton and Bar Harbor, family picnics at Seawall, and picking blueberries on Cadillac Mt. 

Not only is Fr. Ted an Episcopal priest, but he has been an entrepreneur, management consultant, business manager, online researcher, chef, and adjunct professor. In addition to serving as the priest at St. Nicholas Episcopal Church he has a personal finance consulting practice. 

Fr. Ted has lived, worked, and traveled throughout North, Central and South America and Europe, has given lectures, or been a keynote speaker, in professional conferences in both domestic and international venues, and has participated in, or led, mission delegations to the Caribbean, Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East. Other than the United States, Fr. Ted has lived in Paraguay, Bolivia, and Colombia, and served as a volunteer for Witness for Peace and the Center for Development in Central America in Nicaragua. In Colombia, he served as an Episcopal Missionary providing a variety of mission and business development services along with his church responsibilities.

One of the ways that Fr. Ted financed his education was to train and work as a chef. His last position was as a garde manger for the Hyatt Regency in Cambridge, Massachusetts. [In case you’re wondering, a garde manger is the chef responsible for the artistic work on a buffet table along with preparing cold foods such as salads, cold soups, and hors d'oeuvres.] After leaving professional cooking, he combined his passion for mission with his cooking skills and volunteered for Saturdays’/Sunday’s Bread. For 13 years he served as a volunteer coordinator, board member, and Kitchen Executive for the meal program based at The Church of All Nations in downtown Boston.