Byrom and Carolyn Martin were approved as World Baptist Fellowship missionaries to Mexico in 1997.

Byrom was saved at Alvaton Baptist Church when he was seventeen years old. Carolyn was sixteen when she was saved.

Byrom is a 1996 graduate of Arlington Baptist College and Carolyn completed her studies there in 1997.

The Martins were married in 1993 at Alvaton Baptist Church in Haralson, Georgia which is also their sending church.