Gregg Harris - gregg.harris@householdembassy.org

Gregg is a Christian husband and father of seven and grandfather of five.  In addition to his college training at the University of Dayton and Wright State University he has over over 36 years experience in Bible teaching ministry. He is best known for helping Christians of all ages understand how their home and family life serves as an embassy to represent and advance God’s kingdom until Christ returns.

His first-born son, Joshua Harris is the author of I Kissed Dating Goodbye. His second son, Joel Harris, is an accomplished musician, music instructor and worship leader who trains others to lead worship. His 20-year old twin sons, Alex & Brett Harris, are the co-founders of TheRebelution.com and best-selling co-authors of Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations.

Gregg himself is also well known as a conference speaker and author.  His work in the early 1980s helped to launch the Christian home-schooling movement. His seminars have served over 180,000 families. He is the author of The Christian Home School (1988 & 1995) and The Noble Planner Time Management System (1994). He is the Founding President and Director of Noble Institute and a member of the Board of Directors for The Home School Foundation which helps families home school through hard times. Gregg’s wife Sono Sato Harris, passed away on July 4th of 2010. He and his three youngest children continue to live in Gresham, OR, where he serves as a preaching evangelist, a church planting pastor and teaching elder for Gresham Household of Faith.

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Isaac Tolpin - isaac.tolpin@householdembasy.org

• Graduate of University of Washington in 1999 and periodically takes classes at Western Seminary.  Isaac is also a certified trainer of the "Core Values Index" which is a powerful human assessment instrument.

• Has 12 Years of experience giving engaging messages that have had deep and lasting impact on leadership teams, large groups of people and small businesses.

• Has built the largest and most successful Cutco organization (Division) in the 30 year company history making him a company Hall of Fame member. Under his leadership his organization is responsible for creating over 67 million in sales. 

• Co-founder and co-owner of WebPDI, a rich web application built from the ground up that helps leaders more effectively communicate with and impact their teams.

• Actively learning vitaculture as their family planted and is cultivating a small production vineyard called "Damascus Vineyards".

• Executive/Leadership Coach and founder of Choose Growth Coaching.

• Core leader of this Household Embassy Movement.

Isaac has been faithfully walking with Christ for the last 12 years. Three years ago God further impacted his faith helping him realize he is to only fear God instead of man, to not worry but surrender his pursuits to Him, and give God the glory for any fruitfulness.

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Christopher Behnke - chris.behnke@householdembassy.org

Chris currently serves as VP of Information Technology for all of Rentrak's emerging lines of business. Chris began to realize his passion for business development and started his ambitious career in the IT industry very early on. In 1997 while still going to school he co-founded Avalon Technology Group, a small solutions-based technology company. In 1999 he helped develop a web-based “thin-client” technology that paved the way for another new business venture, Hyperlinq Technologies.

In 2001, he was hired on at Rentrak as a IT Project Manager in the newly formed Advanced Media Information division. As project manager he was able to serve in a key role the development and launch of Box Office Essentials, Rentrak's successful theatrical measurement software suite. 

In January of 2004 looking for a new challenge Chris moved his family to Tulsa Oklahoma to run the IT department for Cookson Hills Christian Ministries, a faith based non profit K-12 school and children’s home. After working in Oklahoma for almost 2 years, Chris found himself back in Portland Oregon, heading up development for Rentrak’s new OnDemand Essentials project.

Promoted to Director of I.T. in 2007, Chris oversaw the software development of Rentrak’s new data processing, and measurement services for Internet, Mobile, and Linear TV. In 2010 after successful launches of both local station and network TV measurement services Chris was promoted again to VP of I.T. and currently oversees all the various I.T. aspects of developing, running, and launching Rentrak’s new products.

In the last few years Chris has started several new businesses that are in various stages of development, including http://websafefamily.com a site dedicated to helping families leverage technology in a safe and secure way.

Chris keeps himself busy studying God’s word, writing a blog, training for and running marathons, building new businesses, and spending time as a father of four. Most of all he loves being and working with his beautiful wife Alice, and trying to better use the gifts, energy and passion that God has given him.

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Scott Kirkland - scott.kirkland@householdembassy.org

Scott is a husband and father of three. He is employed by Alpine Mortgage as a Mortgage Advisor and helps those with refinancing and purchasing of residential homes. Scott lives in Sandy, OR and worships at Household of Faith Community Church.