Carole studied music, with an emphasis on choral conducting, at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, California State University, Long Beach and St. John's University in Minnesota, where she became a member of the VoiceCare Network. Carole holds an M Div from Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary in Berkeley, California. She specializes in the area of worship as a worship planner and leader, conference presenter and worship consultant. Carole is working part-time as pastoral intern at King of Glory Lutheran Church in Fountain Valley, CA. (2011)

Tom studied music at the Dick Grove School of Music in Studio City, California and at California State University, Long Beach. Tom studied piano with Edith Hirschtal and played with the L.A. Jazz Workshop. He has performed as a freelance musician, and worked in Lutheran church music with Carole for many years, directing choirs, arranging, and accompanying. Currently, he is a music teacher in the Long Beach Unified School District.

Together, Tom and Carole lead the band, "Woven Image", which presents benefit concerts every year to support the Woven Image Sewing Institute in Hyderabad, India. Also, they are currently producing the fourth in the series of CD's, "Songs of Hope and Healing", which are given away freely by Trinity Lutheran Church in Oakland. They live in Long Beach, California with their son.