Marsha J. Grahek has been a special education teacher for over 25 years, holding a bachelor's degree in social work and a master's degree in education with a focus on Emotionally Disturbed students, along with a graduate certificate in Nonprofit Management. She has worked in high school, middle school, and elementary settings, as a resource teacher, self-contained teacher, and Social Intervention Services teacher, and previously served at Virginia Treatment Center for Children and United Methodist Family Services. In 2001, she founded Christian Reconciliation Ministries International, known as Project Respect, providing humanitarian aid and religious education to children in Kenya and Appalachia. A longtime Royal Rangers and Awana leader and VBS director, Marsha specializes in reaching children with emotional and behavioral challenges. She is married with four children and five grandchildren, and remains devoted to Jesus, her family, and the forgotten children she believes no one is beyond reaching.