Fundraiser for Madonna Shelter Care Farm
Pastor "T" has a LinkedIn and a Quora account which are linked here as buttons.
Deacon Lee is a resident and native of Idaho. She has lived here except for 5 years in San Diego, California where she met Bishop/Pastor "T" at a prayer meeting in a home. She began to train with the Pastor and minister to expand the 12-step informal groups she had facilitated since her teen years. Deacon Lee brought Pastor "T" to Idaho for the birth of her son, and she stayed to assist Deacon Lee through her divorce, running businesses and ministry out of the home.
Deacon Lee was the Youth Pastor for Teens from addiction-affected homes and in addiction themselves. She catechized them, went with them for police reports for abuse, to schools to help them with education, to ministering in their homes to their parents. Deacon Lee was put in charge of the management of the community home that the Pastor and she ran for 10 years with a revolving attendance of 75 people. Deacon Lee has worked in mental health and has gone to college for degrees in Criminal Justice, Psychology, and current Trauma treatments. Deacon Lee now works in corrections in Drug-Alcohol, with limited ministry since the pandemic. She holds a small PTSD group at home on Sunday mornings.
Archdeacon "Lee" has a LinkedIn account access provided by the button
Bishop/Pastor "T" is a community advocate and the founder of Recovery Churches of America. She has spent her life since the age of 21 serving the Lord first as a Third Order Carmelite "street" sister until everyone urged her to follow the call of God to be a Pastor.
She came to Idaho in 1992 to attend the birth of Jade Duplessis, Archdeacon "Lee" Sharalee Duplesis's son. T then founded a church, a community, a religious order, and several businesses. Over the past 3years she has nursed people, trained them in martial arts, taught the gospel, brought the African American culture to Idaho, and shared her life with others.
She has assisted the city and county with laws that better the community and built bridges with churches where she shares ministry to poverty-stricken populations and the homeless. She is consulted by other Pastors, Bishops of the LDS Church, Judges, Lawyers, and City Council members for her wisdom and expertise.
She has moved the church online as it has spread to a home church in Shelley and Whitehall, Montana.
Bishop T received the Silver Stars Award in 2021 and is listed as the first African American woman to post as an instructor in Penjat Silat and Kali/Escrima by Guru Danny Inosanto. She is also a Black Belt in American Kick Punch Karate and founded her style Uzziyah Do, "The Art of the Heart" which combines Chicago Street fighting, classic wrestling, boxing, and her martial arts experience through six street fights in her younger days.
Trimelda dabbles in Languages as a hobby and hopes to be at Level 12 in ten languages before the end of her 70th year. She hopes to obtain a master's in Practical Linguistics after that.
Her biggest project is a Shelter Care Farm for Single Women and their children coming hopefully in 2027 that will combine her knowledge of herbology, indoor farming, folk medicine, and on hands healing for people in need of food, shelter, and community.
My Fifth Grade Photo.
Can you spot me?