Description

Alma Colins Thomas is a New York-based ordained minister, author, podcast host, and teacher who uses her life story of survival and loss to inspire others.Career and roles

• Minister and ministry leader: She is an ordained minister, the founder, and the Executive Director of Alma Collins Thomas Ministries.
• Author: Thomas has authored or co-authored several books, including:
  • Dream Killers (2017)
  • From the Waiting Room to the Recovery Room (2017)
  • Love, Marriage and Divorce
  • She is also working on an anthology for parents who have lost a child, titled My Pain Is Silent, and other books, including Never Was Daddy's Little Girl.
• Podcast host: She is the host of the Da Crew Podcast.
• Teacher: Thomas worked for 27 years as a pre-school teacher atAmityville Head Startand also serves as a Bible school teacher.
• Motivational speaker and coach: Drawing on her own story of grief and recovery, she works as a motivational speaker, consultant, and coach, empowering women and youths and offering grief counseling.Personal life and inspiration
  • Thomas is a single mother of two children, Sabria and her late son, Tysean, who died in 2009.
  • The death of her son inspired her writing, particularly the book From the Waiting Room to the Recovery Room, and led her to become a "dream ignitor".
  • Thomas is also a stroke survivor and continues to inspire people from her hospital bed.
  • Her favorite scripture is Jeremiah 29:11. A quote that inspires her is, "I don't feel no way tired. I have come too far from where I started from...I made it on broken pieces".