(PNS) Ted Pollock, a Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) missionary who during a nearly 70-year career in the mission field richly earned the moniker “Christ’s Globetrotter,” died March 9 while shoveling snow at his home in Rochester, N.Y. He was 95.

         A memorial service for Pollock was held at the First Church of Pittsford, N.Y. on March 15.

Pollock and his book, Christ’s Globe Trotter, were featured in a “For Church Officers” column in The Presbyterian Outlook magazine February 13, 2006. “His enthusiasm about God’s work is so high-powered that people meeting him for the first time worry that he might hyperventilate as he describes it,” wrote New York pastor Earl Johnson in this column.

A native of Canonsburg, Pa., Pollock from a very early age longed to be an overseas missionary but initially believed God only called doctors, preachers, teachers, and those with college degrees. Bored with school, he dropped out of seventh grade during the Depression and soon discovered that he had the skills and heart needed to be a missionary. For almost seven decades, Pollock traveled the world building hospitals and schools, designing windmills to provide irrigation, and engineering innovative housing that is economic and useful in remote locations.

He and his late wife, Dolly, raised seven children in the mission field.