Marshéle Carter Waddell served with her husband, CDR (ret) Mark Waddell, a career U.S. Navy SEAL, for 25 years around the world. Her first two books, Hope for the Home Front: Winning the Emotional and Spiritual Battles of a Military Wife and its companion Bible study, Hope for the Home Front Bible Study (New Hope Publishers 2006), arm other military wives with God’s promises of His presence, power and protection. Together with their three children, the Waddells have endured many lengthy separations and frequent deployments for combat duty, special operations training and real world conflicts for more than two decades.
Marshéle has been featured in international, national and local television and radio interviews including CBN’s 700 Club, Focus on the Family’s daily radio broadcast, Canada’s 100 Huntley Street, the BBC, the Armed Forces Radio Network and the K-LOVE radio and Internet web cast. She has published articles in Today’s Christian Woman, Marriage Partnership, Military Spouse Magazine, Virtue, Command, and Military Lifestyle magazines. Marshéle has been a contracted freelance writer for Focus on the Family’s website, www.family.org, and is a contributing writer to www.womensministry.net, www.fabulously40.com and CBN’s website, www.cbn.com.
Marshéle’s forthcoming book, Galápagos Girl, is the first in a three-book, spiritual memoir series about change, changeability and our unchanging God. She is a contributing author for Moody Publishing’s Faith Deployed: Devotions for Military Wives, and a co-author for Campus Crusade for Christ International Military Ministry’s When War Comes Home: Christ-Centered Healing for Wives of Combat Vets (November 2008).
Marshéle is an international speaker for military ministry, government and women’s events. She serves as a team member of the Campus Crusade for Christ’s Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder ministry, “Bridges to Healing” as well as ACCTS’ Wives of Warriors Worldwide. She is the founder of One Hope Ministry, based in Monument, Colorado, where she lives with her husband and three children.
Having left a career in journalism, marketing and public relations, Marshéle’s highest calling and passions have been her 24-year marriage to Mark, stay-at-home mothering of “J1, J2, and J3,” homemaking, and writing as together she and her family have served the U.S. around the world. God has blessed her with a love for His Word and the enjoyment of communicating His heart through her pen and her life.
