Tory Bjorklund
Birth Date: December 26, 1963
Occupation: Computer Consultant
Wife: Naomi Bjorklund
Children: Adele, Charis, Camilla
Years as a Christian: 23+
Tory was born in 1963 into a Christian home. He grew up as the middle child of four boys and one girl. While his first eleven years were generally uneventful, the next eleven were tumultuous.
When he was eleven his parents were separated. Shortly after that he started smoking and then using drugs. After the divorce, when Tory was twelve he moved to Minnesota with his father.
Shortly after his fourteenth birthday Tory left home to live with a farmer about thirty miles from where his father lived. That point was the beginning of a downward slide that ended with Tory on the road and destitute.
At the darkest time in his life, while he was facing several criminal charges including two felonies, God broke through to Tory and he cried out to God for deliverance. After struggling for over a year with very little teaching and no discipleship, God lead Tory to Mandan North Dakota. That is where he sat under the teaching of Tom and Sandy Schmidt who invested much time and energy discipling him.
After being delivered from alcohol, drugs and cigarettes, Tory turned his attention to helping others who were caught in the same trap he had experience. He started a residential ministry home called Cross-Life. Cross-Life took in people who were in need of intensive spiritual discipleship and provided a safe environment conducive to growth.
In 1985 God called Tory to Alexandria, MN where he worked with the local Christian TV station and eventually started his own computer consulting business. In 1996 he married Naomi Schonberg. Together they have three daughters, Adele, Charis and Camilla.
Tory has never lost the vision for ministering to people who have been enslaved by sin in much the same way he was. It has been his prayer from the time he left North Dakota, that God would allow him the opportunity to be involved in a ministry such as the Regeneration Center. Upon being introduced to Betty Coleman, he was excited to learn that she shared much of the same vision for ministry.