Marcel is a Dutch citizen and was born in 1968. He stumbled on The Urantia Book in the late 1980s and joined the study group of the family who translated The Urantia Book into Dutch. He attended for approximately a decade.
In 2007 he found urantia.nl, the Dutch Association website, which needed some enhancements so offered his services. After a few meetings he was asked to join the board, and has since co-organized the annual Dutch Urantia Meeting on August 21.