About Us

Roy Swart has spent 25 years ministering in one of the darkest corners of the civilized world: the elite intellectuism of the high-tech semiconductor industry. Roy’s Mechanical Engineering degree from MIT, creative mind, and passion for life have opened doors traditionally closed to the gospel. Roy is a founding member of the Ambassadors, and leads the ministry.

Rex is a retired Silicon Valley executive with engineering degrees from Oregon State and Stanford Universities who became interested in apologetics in 2009. Since then, he has earned a certificate in Biblical Studies from Western Seminary while continuing to study apologetics. Rex is a founding member of the Ambassadors Forum and resides in Portland, Oregon, with his wife, Julie.

Brian has had a passion for apologetics and evangelism since his youth. That passion has only intensified as he's watched so many of his childhood church friends walk away from their faith. Consequently, he's been trying to answer the questions and objections of skeptics and wanderers around him since the turn of the millennium and has been in full-time Christian ministry since 2012.

Hannah is a Dr. of Veterinary Medicine who has been practicing for over 20 years. She is also a wife and mother of four. Hannah is passionate about helping students understand how a Biblical worldview lines up with reality and preparing students to identify faulty reasoning, especially in scientific fields.

Herb is a lawyer whose interest in apologetics dates back to his youthful fascination with history. Herb has extensive professional experience involving challenges to traditional Judeo-Christian values from over 26 years of litigating free speech, religious liberty, and conscience cases arising under the U.S. and Oregon constitutions. He is a member of the national board of directors for the Christian Legal Society and is an allied attorney affiliated with Alliance Defending Freedom.

Kari is the founder of OrdinaryKari.com, a blog dedicated to encouraging women to grow in their spiritual lives in practical, hands-on ways. Kari taught Jr. High and High School apologetics for two years at a homeschool co-op.  Now that her three sons have graduated from high school, she studies the Bible, writes on her blog, and loves working with teens and young adults in the Ambassadors ministry.

Adrian has been teaching apologetics in various youth and church settings for over ten years. He is a former public school teacher with a Masters in teaching and has extensive experience engaging the secular culture.

Charles has been a Christian most of his life. He has been married to his stellar wife Royale for 25 years, and they have four superlative children: Erin, Nick, Hope, and Markus. Charles is available to talk about progressive theology, sex in modern culture, critical social justice, heresies from the political right wing, and the violent parts of the Old Testament. And out of all folks in The Ambassadors Forum, he is the tallest.

Charlie loves discovering God's character and purpose through the things He has shown us.  At any time, he is digging into scripture on a number of topics, and is always up to a friendly debate about the awesome sovereignty and goodness of God as revealed through the Bible and history.  He also likes literally digging into creation, has a sizable fossil collection, and is always up for a friendly debate about the age of the earth how creation shows God's sovereignty and awesomeness.  At the time of this writing, He and his wife have 14 kids, and 3 grandchildren.

Laurie was raised in Arizona, where she graduated with a Business Degree from Arizona State University and a Master's in Business Administration from the University of Arizona. Laurie and her husband have two adult children and reside in Newberg, OR. She is involved in church and community activities, and having had “several careers” Laurie feels blessed to now serve as a member of  The Ambassadors Forum team.

Gary retired in 2021 as Managing Director and Vice Chairman of Campbell Global, an Investment Management Firm.  He is active in his church, taught adult Sunday school classes, and served as Elder Chair. He is a board member at Western Seminary, where he has twice served as Chairman of the Board.  

Jeff Jones grew up in the Beaverton area and attended Oregon State University, graduating with a degree in Business and Marketing. Jeff has always had a green thumb, so he put that love of plants toward his first job in sales for a national nursery-stock wholesaler in Hillsboro.  He remained there until starting American Nursery Services in 2005. Jeff has since started and overseen Fusion Marketing and Firmly Planted, non-profit providing materials to such organizations as Habitat for Humanity.  Jeff and his wife, Heidi, have been married since 1983 and have two wonderful adult sons. They both enjoy being involved with their church and also work with Christian schools and agricultural education programs.