Gregg Eugene Harris was a figure in the Christian homeschooling movement from 1981 through the mid-1990s. His work helped to launch the Christian home-schooling movement in the United States, Canada, Australia and Mexico as over 180,000 families attended his seminars. His book The Christian Home School was a Christian Booksellers Association best seller in March 1988. He received his training from Centerville Bible College, the University of Dayton and Wright State University.

Gregg is the founding director of Noble Institute for Leadership Development, a non-profit educational organization under which he offers various seminars, conferences, workshops and retreats.

Gregg Harris is also one of the founders and spokesmen for The Household of Faith Church Reform Movement which assists missionary church planters in establishing or reforming local churches that support the restoration of the Christian household to its biblical place in the church and the civic community. He currently serves as a teaching elder at Gresham Household of Faith (www.ghofcc.org). His local church attempts to serve as a prototype and an on-going experiment in local church reform. He also continues to serve internationally as an evangelist and conference keynote speaker.

He is the Treasurer for The Home School Foundation which collects and distributes funds to provide help for the hurting as they continue to home school their children.

Mr. Harris is also a widowed Christian home-schooling father of seven children. Among them is his oldest son, Joshua Harris, who is the bestselling author of I Kissed Dating Goodbye and Dug Down Deep. His second son, Joel is a music teacher and worship leader, soon to graduate from Multnomah University in preparation for seminary training. His twin sons, Alex & Brett Harris, are co-founders of TheRebelution.com and bestselling co-authors of Do Hard Things and Start Here.

Gregg’s dear wife, Sono, passed away in July of 2010 after a short battle with cancer. Gregg and Sono's three younger children Sarah, Isaac, and James live with him in Gresham, Oregon.

Steve Rouse is a full time teaching elder at Gospel Fellowship Community Church in Gladstone, Oregon.  Their family, along with five other families planted the church in October, 2002.  For three years, Steve was a bi-vocational church planter, working part time for the church and full time as a partner in a grocery food brokerage firm.

Steve graduated from Biola College in 1978 with a Bachelor of Arts in Christian Education.  He began studies at Western Seminary, but then withdrew, and began working full time in the perishable grocery field.  That 25 year career began on an order desk and eventually led to a partnership in the company.  God began to call Steve, and a group of families, to plant a church in the Portland metro area, which today is Gospel Fellowship Community Church.

Steve and his wife Lou have been married for 33 years and have raised two children.  Their son, Matthew is a firefighter-paramedic.  He is married to Heidi and they have two boys.  Their daughter, Elizabeth, is currently serving full time with Operation Mobilization in a journalism position in the United Kingdom, with plans to return home in early September 2012.  Steve and Lou also have a passion for caring for little ones in the foster care system in Oregon.  Currently, the Lord has brought a little two year old boy into their home.  He is their twelfth foster child, and keeps them very busy.

Brad Shedd is an associate pastor at Harvest Assembly in Chesapeake, Virginia responsible for the Household Worship Service, a family-integrated congregation begun in 2008 (www.harvestva.org/hws).

Brad completed his Master of Divinity at Regent University in 1997, receiving the award of Outstanding Divinity Student. A summary version of his thesis “Spirit and Community: The Inseparable Link” was presented at the Society of Pentecostal Studies in Toronto. He began formal ministry at Harvest Assembly in the same year, and has been responsible for a variety of areas in the church, including small groups, worship, discipleship, and assimilation, as well as regular pulpit ministry.

Brad is also an accomplished violinist, completing his Bachelor in Music Education and Violin Performance from the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati in 1990. He has performed for the 700 Club, and even played for Bob Dole and Al Gore on the same occasion! He teaches over 30 students in his private studio, and he serves as an assistant conductor with the Bay Youth Orchestras of Virginia.

Brad lives in Chesapeake, Virginia with his wife Alyson and their eight children: Olivia, Sophia, Stephen, Ava, Susanna, Laura, Juliana, and Brennan. The Shedd family loves to make music together, ministering as a family at FIC conferences, nursing homes, hospitals, and local community libraries. A highlight of nearly every day is their family meal table—a wonderful meal served by Alyson, complete with candlelight, rich conversation, and a sumptuous helping of God’s Word! Brad loves to swim, (swimming over 3 miles a week!) and he loves to read, summarizing and sharing the insights he receives with others.

James, husband to Stacy (author of Raising Maidens of Virtue and Passionate Housewives, Desperate for God), father and grandfather of two, serves as pastor of Providence Church (www.providencecpc.org) in Morton, Illinois. A graduate of the University of Idaho (BSME), James is on a lifelong quest to complete his Master of Divinity and is currently enrolled at The North American Reformed Seminary. A man who has worn many hats, James has served as a design engineer, operations planner, global marketing director, and a publisher, but his true love is preaching God’s Word and ministering to God’s people. He enjoys strong coffee and what some consider to be odd food – from anything Cajun to shark, crawfish, sushi, elk, ostrich, the list goes on and on. Thankfully, his wife Stacy is a wonderful cook, who could make card board taste like bruschetta. The McDonald family lives on two acres of heaven in the middle of nowhere Illinois, where they spend their spare time raising a few chickens, adventuring in the woods and corn fields, and reading good books.