Toby and Cherie met at Alaska Bible College in 1989. Toby was from Wisconsin and Cherie was an Alaskan from north of Fairbanks. They married in the summer of 1990 and are blessed with two beautiful adult daughters. After starting and operating two small businesses, God called them to the mission field of Zambia, Africa, in 2014. They sold their company, raised support and spent three years serving at an orphanage in the Copper Belt region of northern Zambia. Toby and Cherie worked with farming, small business training, project development, teen mentoring and helping with a bush church plant near the Congo border. In 2020, God brought them off the African field and back to Alaska, where they were called to join InterAct Ministries at Lazy Mountain in Palmer as ministry coordinators.