About Chuck & Helen

Chuck:

Dr. Charles (Chuck) Todd, the Founder and President of World Missions Alliance, has been leading cutting edge missionary projects in the “hot spots” of the world since 1990. Under his leadership hundreds of American Christians, called to fulfill the Great Commission, took the Gospel to the former Soviet Union, India, China, Jordan, Syria, Egypt, Israel and Iraq.

His ministry to the Islamic nations started with a trip to Kyrgizstan in 1998. While there Chuck Todd stood on the border between Kyrgizstan and China and prayed for the last stronghold of Communism. Six months later, in May 1999, he flew into China on the same day when NATO bombed the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade . While rioters shut down the American Embassy and held the Ambassador hostage, Chuck Todd preached in a Chinese church where no “Western” person has spoken in 50 years. The next day he signed an unprecedented agreement with the authorities of the Bao’an District allowing groups of missionaries to openly minister the Gospel and distribute Bibles in Guandong Province.

World Missions Alliance prompted the growth in the number of churches in Bao’an district, helped build a 7-story 50,000+ sq. ft. Bao’an Ministry Complex which accommodates two congregations, a Bible school, Bible distribution center, housing for pastors and missionaries and in the future a medical clinic and a kindergarten. After ministering in Southern China for over 7 years, in November 2006 Chuck Todd has received a special invitation from the officials from the Three-Self-Church in Beijing to expand WMA outreach into Beijing and its surroundings.

When the war started in Iraq in the spring of 2003, Chuck Todd felt the call to Babylon. In November 2003 he pioneered WMA outreach in Iraq. He has since made eight trips to Iraq since, survived the danger of kidnapping and death during the Fallujah crisis, met with the Iraq’s Prime Minister Iyad Allawi and started a church in Duhook in the Northern Iraq,

Chuck Todd met his wife Helen in the early 90s while living in Russia as a Missions Director for Revival Fires Ministries. He has witnessed the collapse of the Soviet Union and two coups that took place in Russia during these days, and saved Helen’s life when she was caught in the random crossfire during one of the coups. They have been married for 14 years and have two sons, Phillip and Spencer.

Chuck Todd calls a mission trip a “Date with God”. His message to the church in America is to revive the passionate, intimate, personal relationship with God by fulfilling the Great Commission. He is a popular speaker at missions conferences , revival services and Christian television programs.

Helen:

Helen Todd was born and raised in the former Soviet Union.

Her family’s history resembles the novel “Doctor Zhivago”. Her Great Grandfather, General of the White Army, Pavel Psheradsky, mysteriously disappeared in a war fighting Communists. His wife was sent to Stalin’s Gulags. Helen grew up as an atheist. At a young age she received Christ through a Gospel tract smuggled into the Soviet Union by American missionaries.

While studying at the Bauman University in Moscow, Helen Todd met her future husband Charles in the years of the collapse of the Soviet Union. One of their dates took place during the Russian Coup of 1993 when the Communist Parliament members occupied the White House. Charles saved Helen’s life when she was accidentally caught in a crossfire. They have been married since 1993 and have two sons, Phillip and Spencer.

In April 2004 Helen Todd and her husband Charles found themselves trapped in a deserted hotel in Baghdad in the midst of Fallujah crisis. After the insurgents announced the bounty of $20,000 for each American hostage, she and her husband faced the danger of kidnapping and death. In a dramatic escape on a chartered airplane they safely returned home.

This experience is just one of many in Helen Todd's work as the Vice President of World Missions Alliance. She takes the Gospel to the “hot spots” of the world - former Soviet Union, China, Jordan, Syria and Iraq.

She has victoriously overcome the challenges of adjusting to a new culture, spreading the Gospel in the “hot spots” of the world and balancing a demanding schedule with raising a family.

She is a frequent speaker in conferences and assemblies, churches and retreats, a contributing writer to several Christian an secular publications, and has been a guest on Daystar Television, TBN, Oasis Network, Jim Bakker Show, KY3 and other television and radio programs.