serves as the Director for Leap of Faith Ministries, an intercultural marriage support
ministry in Frisco, Texas.
Marla has authored or co-authored over twenty books
and Bible study guides, including Taking the Intercultural Leap, Generation Hex:
Understanding the Subtle Dangers of Wicca, and In the Flow: Spiritual Insights
for Living a More Creative Life, as well as numerous nonfiction articles and
poems.
Marla has fifteen-plus years of ministry, teaching, and speaking experience
with a variety of organizations.
Currently she works as a staff writer for East-West
Ministries, a grace-based church planting organization in Addison, Texas.
Marla
and her husband, Catalin, whom she met while on a missions trip to Romania in 1998,
have been married for 7 years and currently reside in Texas.