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Minister Tina Thorton
“I Am A Witness� Tina Thornton, a lifelong native of Birmingham, Alabama, serving the indigent population for women, men and at-risk youth has been engaged in community outreach since 1997. She began this journey following her own cycle of abuse after her second marriage/ relationship ended of twenty-one years. Through her quest to comprehend her position or lack thereof of her own abusive posture – Tina enrolled into an Anger Management class to better understand the mindset of her abusive husband. Soon afterwards she began attending a Domestic Violence support group to receive further insight on the repetitive cycle of domestic violence demonstrated in her family. She was looking to help her husband and found help for herself.
Her participation in this group led to her facilitating, Violence Intervention Workshops for the Judicial System.
S.O.L.E.
(Survivors
Overcoming
Life
Experiences) Services, formerly Gem Kreations was birthed through observation of the lack of systematic support readily accessible during her season of restoration and healing warranted to navigate beyond her own abuse. Tina noted the lack of support identifying the rooted matter that positions most victims to participate in cycle relationships fueled by abuse. Tina was determined to encounter inner healing that would truly break the cycle of abuse she had experienced and witnessed in the lives of others. 22
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S.O.L.E. Recovery, LLC, “Survivor focused, and experience driven� was purposed to enrich and transform lives altered by generational cycles of unhealthy abusive behaviors on a journey of advocacy; empowerment, and education. Tina was focused educating women to understand the vast difference between a love that obeys and a love that enslaves! Enslaved love is subjective and conditional. Agape love does not look for reciprocity! Allow love to lead by an authentic demonstration. Empowering others to grow to love themselves more than they’ve experienced in their pain! As its Founder, Tina believes that nothing in life better equips you to help others more than lived experiences beyond shame and guilt of those horrific experiences! Life sets you up with experiences that afford challenges, breakthroughs and solutions that afford deliverance and healing in the lives of others. It was those experiences of abandonment and rejections that defined me beyond my understanding as it relates to low self- esteem and self-sabotage in many areas of my life. Tina found herself abandoning relationships purposed to navigate her beyond the next level of freedom because of trust issues. The greatest reward was laboring to better understand and overcome rooted issues that robbed her of her first identity. This robbery aligned her to collide into the identity of the Father who transforms, pain & disappointment to become a Kingdom solution! It was a journey that shifted the trajectory of her existence, revelation, wisdom and the lives of the children that witness more than they should. 23
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Marie-Clarisse Bonzia
Bon Appétit
In June, 2016 Forbes- Afrique covered Marie-
During high school, she began to dream
Clarisse Bonzia, who wants to promote
of a legal career. But her parents believed
quality chikwangue on Parisian plates. In
their children should aspire to something
the Congo (Democratic Republic of Congo
better than becoming a lawyer. Although,
(DRC) and Central African region, chikwangue
being a lawyer is a prestigious profession
is often called kwanga or chikwangue, but
they wanted her to become a chartered
also known by many names in the various
accountant.
languages across the region. It’s not actually
Against
her
will,
Marie-Clarisse
Bonzia
a bread but a thick paste of soaked, rinsed
therefore joined the Lycée technique du 1er
and pounded cassava that is steamed-cooked
mai located in the Congolese political and
inside leaves.
administrative capital where she obtained
Marie-Clarisse Bonzia desires to escalate the
her Baccalaureate G2 equivalent to the
excellence and authenticity of her business
current Bac STMG (science and technology
in marketing of chikwangues. She had been
of management and management) with the
brought up with respect for the promotion of
option to management and finance. She was
fresh, healthy and good quality ingredients in
a Holder in 1995 of the graduate diploma
food preparation and consumption.
in management, finance and accounting
Marie-Clarisse Bonzia, is an assertive
at the Hautes Etudes Commerciales du
professional that reinforces the mindset
Congo where she obtained a commercial
that there is no age limitations to becoming
position five months later at Saint-Jean
an entrepreneur. She launched the Chic-
Communication, a company specializing in
Kwanga project - Chic to associate the idea
the manufacture of advertising panels where
of refinement with “Kwánga”, which means
she worked.
chikwangue in Lingala. It’s an accompaniment to meats and sauces, and is particularly appreciated in Central Africa. Marie Clarisse is a mother of two daughters and lives a lifestyle of faith before them. Coming from a family of six children, she was born to a father who was a farmer and a mother who was a shopkeeper in Brazzaville, across the river from Kinchasa, the Capitol of DRC where she spent her childhood and her adolescence.
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