Sandra Strall has a B.A. and an M.A. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She taught English for 43 years at Carlson High School, Gibraltar, Michigan, where she was the English Department Chair and advised the yearbook.

During a sabbatical year, she worked in Royal Oak, Michigan at the Rogers/Ruffati organ dealership, a division of CBS Musical Instruments. She was one of two salespeople in Royal Oak, and one of only two women in the country who sold and demonstrated Rogers electronic organs and Ruffati pipe organs. Her area was the Eastern half of the state of Michigan and the top six counties in Ohio.

A principal organist from the age of 16, she has worked at several Methodist churches across the state. A member of the American Guild of Organists, she came to Faith from the organist position at Christ Lutheran Church in Monroe, Michigan.