Pastor Truman Herring retired from the pastoral ministry in 2019.  His pastoral leadership spanned over 49 years and included senior pastor roles at Mt. Hood Baptist Church in Gresham, Oregon where he served for eight years and Boca Glades Baptist Church (BGBC) in Boca Raton, Florida where he served for 31 years.  During his tenor at BGBC, Pastor Herring trained and led numerous mission teams to India, Brazil and Colombia. In both India and Brazil, Pastor Herring was used by God to reach thousands of people with the Gospel through regional Crusades.

Pastor Herring currently serves as President and Founder of Truman Herring Ministries and is an accomplished writer authoring over eleven books, including the “Journeys Series” and “Battles of the Lords Series”.  Pastor Herring has also been a well-respected speaker at many Pastor Conferences in India, Africa, Brazil and Colombia. 

Pastor Herring and his wife, Connie, have been happily married for over 50 years and are blessed with three children and four grandchildren.  Always a man of humility, Pastor Herring simply wants to be known as a follower of Jesus Christ with a desire to evangelize, make disciples and encourage the Church of Jesus Christ.

Greg became a Christian on May 7, 1975, near the end of his sophomore year in college.   He loves Jesus Christ!  He was born (1955) and raised in the Northern Kentucky/Greater Cincinnati, Ohio region.  Greg met his wonderful wife, Debbie, in graduate school in 1981 and was married in 1982.  Greg and Debbie currently reside in greater Phoenix.  In addition to two beautiful daughters, they are now grandparents and love every moment of this life stage. The family is rounded out with an energetic lab mix, Porsha. Greg enjoys reading, sports and dates with his family.  His favorite Bible influencers are Jesus, Daniel, Joseph and Paul.  Greg is Greek and communicates with a lot of passion.  He currently assists in missional leadership with Team Trinity in the starting of The Trinity Church, one of the fastest growing church plants in the Western USA. 

Greg starred for a national championship baseball team (1972) and was a record setting pitcher for Marshall University (1973-1977) where he graduated with a B.A. in Speech.  He was inducted into the Marshall University Hall of Fame in 2012.  Sensing a strong call to preach, teach and train others in the Word of God, Greg turned down a free agent contract with the Boston Red Sox (1977) and went into full-time ministry with CRU (Campus Crusade for Christ).   Dr. Kappas has served the Lord full-time in Christian work since 1977.  He has three earned graduate degrees, M.Div., Th.M. and D.Min. from seminaries in Southern California and Oregon.  He has studied with his wife in Israel and Greg has worked as a teaching and executive assistant for two seminary presidents.  Greg has served some of the evangelical world’s most dynamic ministries as pastor, coach and consultant/strategist. 

Dr. Kappas was selected by his peers as one of the top 100 U.S. evangelical influencers in leadership development (1999, Leadership Network).   He has taught and partnered with many ministries, including Gateway Seminary – Arizona, Grand Canyon University, Exponential, Leadership Network and Grace Global Network.  He has served on the adjunct faculty of numerous evangelical seminaries and universities teaching Pastoral Ministry, Pastoral Theology, Christian Worldview, Hermeneutics, Preaching, Bible, Theology, Leadership, Church Planting, Church Health and Growth.   He is a cofounder of the International Church Planters Summit.  He also is a cofounder of Heart of Grace Ministries (heartofgrace.com).   Greg has led, pastored and served on the Executive and Preaching teams of some of America’s fastest growing churches and consults with churches around the world, including strategic mega churches.  Dr. Kappas has coached evangelical business leaders of oil, aerospace engineering, insurance, investments/retirement planning and construction to integrate their faith and corporate work with Scripture.

In December of 2004, Greg founded Grace Global Network and serves as President.  This national and international church planting movement is seeing remarkable favor from the Lord.  GGN partners with other evangelical reproducing church planting movements in multiplying new churches around the globe (graceglobalnetwork.org), including the Global Alliance for Church Multiplication (GACX).  GGN also assists turnaround churches to greater health through a creative process of ministry.

Greg served as the Vice President and on the Leadership Team for The Timothy Initiative (ttionline.org) from 2009-2016 and has served on the Grace Fellowship Executive and Preaching Team (2009 – 2013), both in West Palm Beach, FL.  He is humbled by the grace of God upon his life. 

The Holy Spirit has graced Greg as an international leader in the fields of church planting, discipleship/mentoring and leadership development.  He has been a leader of leaders in personally coaching thousands of church planters/pastors and hundreds of church planting movement leaders.  He is an influential communicator, both orally and in written form.  Greg has authored or co-authored numerous works, including the highly regarded Twenty-five Questions for Planting a Healthy Church, Five Stages for Multiplying Healthy Churches, Recapturing the Art of Shepherding and Somewhere Inside the Rainbow.  He served as General Editor and author for The Timothy Initiative’s Foundational 11 book curriculum which has over 15 books and 700,000 plus volumes in print.  He has had a fruitful ministry in training national and international influencers in multi-ethnic, cross-cultural and multi-generational local church ministry.   There are over 80,000 multiplying evangelical churches started and 2 million plus people have come to Jesus Christ through Grace Global Network and its various partnerships.      

Greg provides individuals and ministries with free weekly videos, called Leadership Lifters that can be found on Youtube, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, along with the website graceglobalnetwork.org.

David serves as Founder and President of TTI. He casts vision and gives direction to TTI as we impact the world for Christ. David is a former senior pastor and has had success in growing three different churches in Maryland, Iowa and Florida. He has served as a trustee on the board of Luther Rice Seminary and taught all over the world.  David received a Master of Arts from Moody Bible Institute, a Master of Divinity from Luther Rice University and his Doctor of Ministry from Luther Rice University. David is married to his lovely wife, Loretta. They have three grown children and five grandchildren.

Pastor Wolcott has been a Christ follower since 1982 and has served in many leadership positions as a lay person before being ordained as a full time pastor in 2009.  Pastor Wolcott also has a strong calling to share the Gospel throughout the world and has participated in numerous mission trips to several countries on multiple continents, including India, Brazil, Angola and Colombia.  In India and Angola, Pastor Wolcott was used by God to reach thousands of people with the Gospel through Regional Crusades.

Pastor Wolcott is currently the senior pastor at Crosswalk Ministries in LaPine, Oregon, a role in which he has served in for over eleven years.  Pastor Wolcott also serves on the Board of Directors of Colombia Grace Foundation, which oversees an orphanage in Turbaco, Colombia.

Pastor Wolcott has been married to his wife Rhonda for 46 years and has two children and three grandchildren.  He was formerly a homebuilder and enjoys fishing, hunting and being a grandfather.

My name is Juan Manuel Padilla. I was born in Barranquilla, Colombia. I am an International Relations major, currently studying for a Master’s  Degree in Teaching Languages at the University of Indiana. For over 10 years I have been serving the Lord in missions, volunteering with several ministries as an interpreter and fellow evangelist in my home country of Colombia.   For the sake of the Gospel, I have also served as an evangelist throughout South America and the United States, including leading teams to Brazil over 5 times.  

Tom McDonald has been a missionary since 1999.  His service to the Lord has spanned over five continents and included such countries as Russia, Zambia, Colombia and the United States.

Mr. McDonald and his wife Lynette are the privileged parents of Peter and Julianna.  They own their business serving families and developing leaders. Mr. McDonald is active in his local church and enjoys the outdoors.  Tom and Lynette bring joy and laughter wherever they go and seek to encourage others in their walk with the Lord.  The McDonald’s live in Loxahatchee, Florida and have been married since 2013.