Tina
Las Vegas, NV
2016
Most little girls are playing with the newest dolls, learning how to braid, and baking cookies with moms and sisters. But when Tina was seven, her grandfather started sexually abusing her. Two years later, Tina was raped by her oldest brother’s “friend.”
At just eight years old, Tina started drinking, attempting to wash away the shame and pain of her stolen innocence. By her tenth birthday, Tina had tried marijuana, acid, and cocaine.
Tina didn’t know any better. It was a life she learned, a life she was too young to save herself from … especially when no one in her life was protecting her.
For decades, Tina endured the trauma of devastating her body through drug use, having children only to lose custody, and surviving a brutal and violent kidnapping. “He cut me in my chest and was licking blood off of me,” Tina vividly remembers. And she won’t forget … “I still have the scar from it.”
After a life of unimaginable suffering, pain, and torture, how could Tina’s life transform? How could she heal? How could she move forward with any hope?
As 1 Peter 1:3 declares, “Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he gave Tina new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,”. And her rebirth into the world came at Hoving Home.
“The Benton Academy was strategically designed by God to pinpoint everything I was going through at the perfect time. It taught me exactly what I needed and gave me discipline and structure out of the chaos.”
Only God can take a life beaten down by sin and brokenness and restore it to purpose and inherent dignity. “It took me 50 years, so I don’t count God out for anything,” Tina declares!
Tina’s life is a reminder of the power God’s love. Jesus died to redeem the souls of ladies like Tina, so they can know the truth of the Gospel!
As for her scars, Tina knows they’ll be fully healed in heaven, thanks to the scars in Jesus’ wrists. Praise God for His mighty work in Tina’s life!
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