Cynthia Ann Perkins grew up in the southeastern corner of Oklahoma in the Kiamichi Mountains. There, her family were missionaries in a small community called Zafra. Her beginning education was in Zafra's one-room schoolhouse. 

At the age of eighteen, she left for college, where she met her husband, Kent Perkins. They both embraced the ministry. After marriage, she received her Ph.D. in Music Education from the University of Oklahoma. 

Cynthia and Kent have been missionaries in both Nicaragua and the Kiamichis. Cynthia has taught music to all ages in public schools., colleges, and churches. She has also been the Christian education minister in the churches where her husband has been called to minister. 

Standard Publishing Company and numerous community newspapers and magazines have published Cynthia. Kent and Cynthia have two children; Ann Marie Brown, married to Sig, and Keri Lynn Lawson, married to Jake. She has four wonderful grandchildren: Brodie, Audrey Anna Brown, Dewey Wayne, and Lucille Lynn Lawson. She and her husband, Kent, live between Nashoba and Honobia, Oklahoma. They currently minister at the Zafra Chruch in Zafra, Oklahoma, her childhood church.