Gerda Marie Koch was born April 8, 1903 in Greenville, Wisconsin to a family of traditional German immigrants, who helped open "The Wilderness" and establish Christian civilization on these shores.

Gerda's entire life was devoted to Christian education for, as she believed, one could not attain true knowledge without the underpinning of Christian Faith. She taught at the Lutheran school in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin in 1920, and graduated in 1922 from Dr. Martin Luther College in New Ulm, Minnesota. Gerda later attended Moody Bible Institute, graduating in 1936, subsequently teaching in numerous Wisconsin and Minnesota public schools. Gerda also earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Milwaukee State Teacher's College, which later became the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee.

In the late 1950's, after the late Senator Joseph McCarthy had exposed numerous Communist and their sympathizers in the State Department (and elsewhere) with the House Un-American Afairs Committee (HUAC), Gerda was surprised to learn Socialists were still being invited to speak in public schools, promoting secular humanism, a default religion which undermines Christianity. One in particular, the negro Carl Rowan (an apologist for Gunnar Myrdal), addressed the PTA where she worked. After bringing the matter to the attention of Arthur J. Lewis, Assistant Superintendant of the Minneapolis public schools, Gerda found herself under pressure, and was subsequently fired.

Believing a Christian nation is entitled to a Christian administration and non-sectarian Christian education, Gerda began investigating anti-Christianism in the public school system, and founded Christian Research in 1958 as a vehicle for this investigation, also publishing a newsletter, Facts For Action, which is still in circulation today. In collaboration with educator Verne Kaub, Gerda authored the book, Federal Aid: Trap for the Unwary.

In the 1960's Gerda's outspokenness was (temporarily) challenged by a libel suit filed by then University of Minnesota professor Arnold Rose, whom she identified as a Communist collaborator with Swedish Socialist Gunnar Myrdal, author of the tome on race relations, An American Dilemma. Having lost in a lower court, Gerda won on appeal to the Minnesota Supreme Court, after which Mr. Rose died. Gerda later was a candidate for Congress in Minnesota's 5th District.

After working with Sheldon Emry (founder of America's Promise) on his book, Billions For Bankers, Debts For the People, Gerda moved south to Eureka Springs, Arkansas, a quaint tourist town, home to the Great Passion Play founded by the late Gerald L.K. Smith, where she continued the work of Christian Research, managing book tables at numerous area fairs and conventions.

Due to declining health in the early 1990's, Gerda passed management of Christian Research to her assistant, Dan Gentry, who became Director in 1994, and continues the ministry forward to this day.

Gerda Koch passed this life's Bar Exam on July 5, 1994, at the age of 91.