About Kerry

Kerry Marks Hasenbalg is the CEO of BECOMING Foundation, Inc. As a respected teacher, writer, and speaker, Kerry divides her time primarily between facilitating soul care retreats and homeschooling her four children. She began her professional career on Capitol Hill as the fellow for the Congressional Coalition on Adoption (CCA), a bipartisan, bicameral caucus of more than 170 members of Congress. In 2002, together with the four congressional co-chairs of the CCA, Kerry created the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute. As the organization’s founding executive director, she worked closely with the congressional members on child welfare issues in the U.S. and abroad. Under her leadership, all five of the organization’s main programs were created, including the congressional Angels in Adoption awards program, National Adoption Day, and the congressional Foster Youth Internship program. Kerry has visited more than 50 countries, and led more than a dozen congressional delegations abroad, meeting with high-ranking government officials and the poorest of the poor in every location, to advocate for improved child welfare policies and practices.

Kerry has authored curriculum for faith communities including devotionals, retreat material, and inspirational essays. As a magna cum laude graduate of Bucknell University, Kerry earned dual degrees in Russian and international studies. Kerry later completed post-graduate work at both the American University in Russian Studies and at Calvary Chapel Bible College, with a focus on counseling and Biblical studies. Prior to her work in DC, she spent three years serving in Russia as an interpreter for missional organizations and caring for orphans and street children with a variety of child welfare groups.

Over the years, Kerry and her husband, Scott, have been known to work in tandem for children’s causes. In their joint efforts, they have been instrumental in the creation of several charitable organizations in addition to CCAI, which are all flourishing today, including Christian Alliance for Orphans, where Scott served as a founding board member; North Branch Young Life; Calvary Chapel DC Metro; Orphan Institute, where Kerry and Scott both serve as founding executive board members; and Show Hope, where Scott served as the Executive Director for 12 years under the board leadership of its founders, Steven Curtis and Mary Beth Chapman.

Since 2014, Kerry has led dozens of private retreats for leaders and laypeople from the US and abroad through the BECOMING project she developed. The Becoming curriculum is based on Biblical scripture and was developed to aid people in personal and relational reconciliation as well as deep inner healing. In 2016, Kerry and Scott began facilitating marriage retreats using the BECOMING principles and practices.

Kerry also spends time working alongside Scott to assist individuals and organizations in stewarding their platforms and resources for the highest and best social welfare and kingdom impact. Kerry is currently a member of the executive board of the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute in Washington, DC, the advisory board of the Hands and Feet Project in Nashville, TN, and the ethics board of Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, Pennsylvania.

She and Scott live together in Danville, Pennsylvania, with their four children, Cole, Maya, Leah, and Annika; all whom she homeschools.

Scott and Kerry 2019