Mrs. Toy graduated from Messiah College in Pennsylvania with a Bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education. She attended Wheaton Graduate School in Illinois and the Evangelical School of Theology in Pennsylvania. She had taught for ten years in Christian schools and also homeschooled her own children. Mrs. Toy is ACSI certified.

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Mrs. Toy and her husband have served as inner-city missionaries for many years and now reside in North Carolina.