Writing and Speaking

Margot is a freelance writer and speaker.  Her spiritual memoir, The Girl In The Orange Dress: Searching for a Father Who Does Not Fail is scheduled for release, from InterVarsity Press, in the summer of 2009.  Margot is the Confessions Editor of Geez Magazine's Sinner's Corner. (What could possibly be more wonderful than that cool thing?)  In addition to writing for periodicals, Margot has contributed to several books.  Margot is represented by WordServe Literary.

Margot earned her degree in art, at Westmont College, in 1991. She worked with Urban Promise ministry, in Camden New Jersey, before pursuing a Master’s of Divinity degree from Princeton Theological Seminary which she earned in 1995.

Professional

In 1996 Margot was ordained to the ministry of word and sacrament in the Presbyterian Church USA. For six years she worked as the Director of Spiritual Development at the Eastern Christian Children's Retreat in Wyckoff, New Jersey, serving women and men living with disabilities. She also served Ponds Reformed Church of Oakland New Jersey as an interim pastor.

Personal

Through the Spirit at work in family and friends, Margot has come to know the steadfast presence of the Face that does not fail in Jesus Christ. She explains,

"I'm convinced that individuals are transformed as they come to know, in their bones, Jesus' constant whisper, 'I am for you."

Adopted as an infant, Margot was reunited with her birthmother at the age of twenty-two. Today she enjoys relationships with her birthmother and her adoptive parents.

Margot lives in Durham North Carolina with her husband Peter and their three marvelously-made children. She serves as a volunteer hanging out with teens who live with disabilities through Reality Ministries.  Visit Reality Ministries to learn more.  She also thinks that YoungLife's Capernaum ministry to teens  totally rocks.