Welcome to My World

By the time she was 12 years old, she had been introduced to alcohol and drugs, by 13 she had been expelled from school for truancy and fighting, and by age 15, she was a teenage parent. Despite all she had experienced in her young life, Marsha believes something-- someone kept tugging at her--not allowing her to go to that extreme edge that would have sent her to prison, caused her to become addicted, or that would have taken her life. There was something at work with which she really had no control. Because of that something, she quit her job as a dry cleaning clerk and went back to high school. By then, she was 16 years old.

After finishing high school in the top 10% of her class, Marsha attended college part-time for 12 years with the support and encouragement of your husband Larry. She earned a Bachelor's degree from the University of Missouri-St. Louis in Business Organization & Management. She was later awarded a graduate fellowship from St. Louis University and earned a Master's Degree in Organizational Communication. As a young writer, Marsha enjoyed writing poetry that was inspired by her family and other with whom she shared a close relationship. After the Altar is a ten-year project that she began shortly after completing graduate school. Marsha hopes that the lives of those who read this book will be transformed and that they will enjoy a more personal relationship with the Lord because of this witness to them.

Marsha shares her life with her loving and supportive husband Larry, three wonderful children Nichole, Marlin and Shannon, and three grandchildren Marque, Jasmine and Jonathan. She is also a faithful member and Deaconess at Abundant Life Fellowship Church, in St. Louis, Missouri and has served under Bishop Matthew Ferguson for over 18 years.