Based from Passion
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
