Marvin R. Wamble
Author and Sports Reporter

Marvin R Wamble.  A sports reporter for more than 14 years, Wamble never played golf. While working for the Dallas Times Herald, he often laughed at his frustrated colleagues when they returned to work following a long hot round. It wasn’t until he moved to corporate America and discovered that he was the only person in his office not on the golf course on Friday afternoons that he decided to give the game a try. He was hooked. Marvin, a native of the San Francisco Bay Area, has been loving and hating the game ever since.

Wamble is an award winning journalist, playwright and pastor of two churches in Maryland. His many experiences on courses across the country and around the world led him to write, From Tee to Green: Seeing God in the Middle of the Fairway. The book traces his relationship with golf, from his humble beginnings to the variety of lessons learned each time he hits the links. These experiences, the good, the bad and the ugly parallel his walk with God in this humorist account of joy and pain on the golf course. From the grip, to the stance, to battling rough and escaping traps, Wamble shows how golf and his walk with God have molded his life.

In addition to 14 years as a sports journalist, including eight years as the host of several radio talk shows in Dallas, TX, Marvin also served as a Public Relations executive for several Fortune 500 corporations including AT&T. He was also the Senior Vice President for Walls Communications, a full service public relations firm in Washington, DC.

Despite his work in communications, Wamble always sensed he had a higher calling. After working at his local church and holding conference positions in the Baltimore-Washington area, he accepted his call to ministry 11 years ago. He has been the pastor of Shiloh Community United Methodist Church in Newburg, MD for the past four years. He has been married to the former Anita Patterson, who he met when she was 4-years-old and he was eight, for 24 years and is the father of two children Julian, 21 and Jenise 16.