Carol and Valen met when they attended White River High school in Buckley, Washington. After graduation, Carol went to Dental Assistant training school, and Valen attended Prairie Bible Institute. Carol and Valen were married in 1974, and they returned to Prairie in 1975. While there, they felt God calling them to full-time service. God used many circumstances in their lives to eventually lead them to InterAct Ministries in 1987 as missionaries to the First Nation peoples of Canada. They worked for ten years in North Battleford, SK, where they discipled Native believers and helped establish an indigenous church. In 1998 they moved to Kamloops, BC to work with the Kamloops Native Fellowship with the desire to see strong believers and families who will take on the leadership of the church. They have two children and three grandchildren.