Frank is from Michigan and Marla is from Illinois. They met while attending Andrews University and were married in 1972. After they completed their B. A. degrees, they worked while continuing work on their post graduate programs. In 1981 Frank received his Master of Divinity and Marla received her M. A. in Educational Administration. Frank has served as a pastor in Michigan and Indiana and Marla has served as a school principal and teacher. They have a son, Ryan.

James is from Cambodia, the country known as the "Killing Fields" after the Vietnam War. He came to know Christ at the age of seventeen. Both James and Vandie escaped the "Killing Fields" into Vietnam where they had been trained as communist soldiers and met. After returning from Vietnam, they escaped again to the Thai-Cambodian border where James became a freedom fighter and later converted to Adventism. In America, he worked as an assistant engineer after he completed his B.S. in electrical engineering from California State University, Long Beach. He then attended La Sierra University and completed his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Religion. James has been serving as a pastor with the Southern California Conference and he and Vandie have four children, Ruth, Daniel, Jonah, and Jeanette.

Pastor Thomas was born in Liberia, but lived for several years in Ghana because of the civil war in his home country. There he became a Baptist pastor, working with the youth. After coming to America, he attended meetings given by Mark Finley, and was baptized into the Adventist church in 2000. He joined the Norwalk church as a layperson, and has been active in the outreach of the church. The church recognized his calling to the ministry, and asked him to join the pastoral staff in charge of visitation.