Reverend Marcia Bowman considers her children as God's greatest gifts and confirmation of His love. Her daughter is a public school reading specialist and her son is a Captain in the U.S. Marines. She also participated in the lives of her two children-by-marriage who are a child care business manager and a counselor for adolescents. She currently serves as a Blue & Gold Officer for the U.S. Naval Academy. She is working full-time as a Public Policy and Public Administration doctoral student. She is a professional behavioralist, goverance and complaince specialist and policy expert.
Reverend Bowman is a member of the ministry staff as the Assistant to the Missions Ministry Director and Lead English as a Second Language Instructor at Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church in Herndon, VA. She is a gifted novelist, professional technical writer, teacher, trainer, Time Management and Parenting Workshop leader and facilitator.
She was licensed to Minister by the Reverend Pastor Edward Ellis, Sr. at First Bryan Baptist Church in Savannah, GA. First Bryan Baptist Church is the oldest continuously African American Baptist church in the United States. She is was certified to facilitate Masterlife Discipleship Training at Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church in Herndon, VA. (Pastor James Graham). In May of 2007, she received a Doctorate in Ministry and was ordained through the Universal Life Church in Spokaine, Washington. Her baptism, at the age of 9, was through the evangelism of her grandmother and Jr. Church (minister) superintendent, Mrs. Ella W. Ruffin at Ebenezer Baptist Church and by the late Reverend Dr. James B. Cayce.
Currently Reverend Bowman is pursuing a Ph.D. in Public Policy and Administration from Walden University with a specialty in Public Policy. She was inducted into Pi Alpha Alpha, the National Honor Society for Public Administrators in June 2009 as an honor for her scholarship and dedication to social change and public administration. She is also attending the Ministry Institute at Mount Pleasant Baptist Church in Herndon, Virginia.
Reverend Bowman has served as a Youth Sunday School teacher, Collegiate Ministry Director, Yamacraw Outreach Reading Center Director and Scholarship Committees, Sisterhood, Women's Ministry, Women's Sunday School, Archives Committee among other activities.
Other volunteer efforts have included PTA board member as Newsletter and Fundraising Chairperson and local school and county school Advisory board member as well as county board member for Sponsors for the Gifted in Fulton County, GA. She was an elementary school tournament chess club founder and U.S. Chess Federation affiliated and ranked coach and middle school Human Relations Chairperson in Fairfax County, VA. Sponsors for New and Talented Artists (SONATA) Board member, Jack & Jill of America, Inc. (Reston) Board member as Secretary, Education Committee Chairperson, Scholarship Committee Chairperson, Teen Activities coordinator.