She is originally from Livingston, Texas. Her undergraduate degree is in music education from Sam Houston State University and her first Master's degree is from Rice University in horal conducting. During the mid 1990s, Pastor Orr was Associate International Tour Manager for the Houston Grand Opera, and toured with the company of Porgy & Bess. She ultimately answered her call to full-time pastoral ministry in 1998 and received her Master’s of Divinity in 2005 from Asbury Seminary.