Tini Semeria Spark in the Dark Foundation, Inc.

08/13/2025

Let’s goooooo….

The Tini Semeria Spark in the Dark 5k Walk/Run - October 5, 2025 @ 6pm is on Thursday February 20, 2025 to Tuesday October 7, 2025. It includes the following events: Tini Semeria Spark in the Dark 5k Walk/Run, VIRTUAL Tini Semeria Spark in the Dark 5k Walk/Run, Donation Only $30, Donation Only $50,....

08/03/2025

Joy and sorrow…

Don’t let me waste my pain, in our pain is our greatest ministry!

Lord, use this book for your glory!

ORDER NOW - book releases August 5th!

Praise to the God of All Comfort

“Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.”

I love you Tini - keep shining God’s light into other’s hearts! 💛🌻🌟

10/04/2024

Loved being with these two precious women!

Jennifer & Melynda I love you both and I’m so proud of you jumping into the podcast world! You are changing lives because of your YES!

You are truly bright Sparks in the Dark! Keep shining bright! 💛🌻🌟

Empty Nest Quest · Episode

09/24/2024

WE DID A THING!!!

The strongest women I know!!

Next up / our book!

Share away…

Praying that our stories bring hope and purpose to others.

In our pain is our greatest ministry.

We are all just walking each other home.

hello and welcome warrior moms We’re glad you found us. Take your time, look around, and visit us as often as you’d like. our book… Read more

08/18/2024

Tini 💛🌻🌟

16 new items · Memory by Catherine Semeria

08/04/2024

It’s Fall.

It’s Dave’s 16th year as a Fulton County School Bus Driver - please pray for him, all the adults pouring into our children and for our children.

Can you feel it, see it, hear it, smell it, touch it?

I can.

It’s that time of year where everything washes over me.

I can’t explain it, but as soon as Tini’s Birthday approaches, the week before the 28th of July, the weight of the season presses in on my entire being and takes my breath away.

My heart beats faster and I can feel my body going into sensory overload.

The subtleties and changes of the season of Fall shift my entire being into a heightened sense of awareness and a deep weight of heaviness.

It’s so complicated and difficult to explain in words.

The 9th season of Fall without Tini here on Earth.

A season of new beginnings, the start of school, the promise of new hope.

Crisp cool mornings to come. Football games, warm fires, new sports, crisp apples, horses in the barn, new friends, the beginning of a new Church Youth Group and the list goes on...

Joy that is full of anticipation of exciting new things to come...

I continue to crawl through these days with the reminder that the future of all these new beginnings with Tini are gone...

Fall just takes me to my knees.

I’ve tried to figure out why this season more so than the others?

I think it’s the stark juxtaposition of fresh new beginnings with so much hope and excitement that stands against so much tension of the loss and emptiness and the remaining hole in my heart that simply aches and feels everything.

The tension of joy and sorrow... life goes on all around me... laughter and so much expectation of a new year...

Trying to reconcile all the senses that are on overdrive is impossible.

I am getting more input from my five senses than my brain can sort through and process.

I know I’m rambling and still so mixed up on most everything.

Time and grief is so disorienting now...

It is like time is frozen...I am in this time warp bubble, with one foot in the past and one foot in the future. As if time doesn't move for me, yet it does for everyone else.

This crazy feeling like I am standing still on April 27th 2016 and can see and feel everything on that day and backwards...but still here I am on August 4th 2024....again too hard to even put this into words.

And here I am holding onto the hope and promise that God is faithful, HE sees me, HE weeps with me and HE will never leave me.

The gift HE has given me of KNOWING the preciousness of EVERY moment in time...ALL of it - past, present and future.

I gently hold each and every moment in my heart and thank God HE has given me the eyes to see and heart to know that my faith and HIS promises hold true. This is not my home, I am promised eternity with HIM and I will be with my girl one day soon.

"He will cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart." Psalm 91:4

I miss you Tini.

I long to see you riding Beau in the fields at Redd Road...

I yearn to see you sitting on the kitchen counter with your guitar singing a song you just wrote.

I ache to hold you and hug you and tell you I love you.

I weep for all the earthly future moments we should be experiencing together.

“Notice that autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.”

I love you Tini to the moon and back, infinity and beyond. I’m missing you so much.

07/28/2024

// 28 ~ t i n i ‘ s g o l d e n b i r t h d a y //

// O u r O l y m p i c G o l d //

// J u l y 2 8 1 9 9 6 //

Happy GOLDEN Birthday sweet Tini.

28 years ago tonight we headed to the hospital full of so much joy, love and expectation.

Just after 1 am you arrived. Our miracle.

We fell in love instantly.

Your beautiful soul was and always will be so near to God.

Your heart, your love for the hopeless, the unseen... Every once of your tiny, passionate, bold and fearless body was on fire for Jesus.

You lived your life on purpose.

You pointed thousands towards Jesus while on Earth.

You literally are bringing hundreds of thousands from death to life from heaven.

Tini you walked with God.

You knew it was urgent. You never wasted one second of your life.

Your ripple is a tsunami of and for Jesus's love across the world.

What an extraordinary Christ follower you are.

Daddy and I are so proud of you.

Daddy and I are so grateful that the Lord choose us to be your earthly parents.

Our hearts ache and burn to hold you and give you birthday kisses.

But God... Even though we long and groan to be with you, we are forever grateful that we know where you are... dancing and singing with Jesus, full of joy.

AND we will be with you for eternity, one day very soon. We can hardly wait to hug you and never let go.

AND so we grieve with HOPE.

We love you to the moon and back, infinity and beyond Tini.

In honor and memory of our sweet Tini's 28th Birthday, please donate to Tini's Spark in the Dark Scholarships and look for an opportunity to do an extraordinary act of kindness.

You can be a part of Changing the next generation one SPARK at a time.

We are so excited for Tini’s 5th Annual Spark in the Dark 5K Walk/Run on October 6th at 6pm at The UGA Golf Course in Athens!

We’ll have glow-in-the-dark wristbands, facepaint, live music, awesome t-shirts and swag bags! AND the UGA Cheer Dawgs will be there! It’s going to be so fun! Won’t you join us?!?!

All proceeds will go towards Tini’s Spark in the Dark Scholarships.

You can register in person or virtually at the link below.

https://runsignup.com/Race/GA/Athens/TiniSemeriaSparkintheDark5kWalkRun

This would mean the world to us.

We would love to have you share with us your memories, your Tini acts of kindness, your Jesus stories by posting and using

Go be that Spark in the Dark! This world needs you.

UGA Tini Spark in the Dark Endowed Scholarship link below to donate -

https://gail.uga.edu/commit?search=75668003

Happy Happy 28th GOLDEN Birthday Tini. We're singing Happy Birthday to you and we're blowing you thousands of birthday kisses to you in heaven.

We can only imagine the birthday celebrations going on in heaven for you dancing and singing on streets of gold.

❤️🌻🎂🎈🎉😘💜

@ Milton, Georgia

04/20/2024

Jesus wept.

Two of the most powerful words in scripture.

HE knows.

It’s Saturday.

7 days away from the worst Wednesday of our human lives.

7 days away of Tini’s arrival into her eternal home…the greatest joy for Tini as Jesus wrapped His loving arms around her as Tini heard the words she longed to hear…Well done good and faithful servant.

Wednesday, April 27th.

It will be 8 years from April 27th 2016.

The seconds, the minutes, the hours, the days leading up to April 27th are excruciating.

It is so incredibly difficult to explain what I’m feeling as this date approaches.

It’s surreal. It’s out of body. Disconnection. Unreal. A veil of dread. It’s so disorienting.

It’s like being in a horror movie in slow motion, again, and we know the ending, and we can’t stop it no matter how hard we try.

It’s being on a merry-go-round and you can’t get off no matter how hard you try.

It’s the what ifs, the whys, the lack of control to stop the inevitable from happening because it’s already happened.

It’s the lump in my throat that has gotten larger and harder to swallow as the 27th gets closer.

It’s the tears in the corners of my eyes that begin to spill over.

It’s the headache, the body aches, the exhaustion of it all.

My heart hurts. It doesn’t go away.

Even though I know where Tini is and I know that we will be with her again…it doesn’t take the pain of loss away.

There isn’t a moment that goes by that I don’t miss and think about our sweet Tini.

I’m reminded at this time of year with Easter that Jesus carried a cross and that my cross and my suffering is carried by Jesus too.

I grieve with hope and I know that God is good and faithful and will never leave me, and I’m just heartbroken as a Mom that my girl isn’t here with me.

Lord, thank you for carrying us and never leaving us.

Lord, help us to persevere even in this deep suffering and to be your joy and hope to your people in this world who need it desperately.

Tini, we’re looking for you especially these next 7 days and I know your presence will be right there with us.

It’s the tension of holding both joy and sorrow, beauty and ashes, brokenness and wholeness…all of the jagged pieces that hurt but create a tapestry of sacred holiness…

Holding onto your words that you wrote Tini -

“Joy is a difficult thing. It is not, however, to be mistaken with happiness. Happiness is based on circumstances. Joy is an orientation of the heart. It remains even in the most strenuous moments, and has no barriers or limitations. It is from a God of unconditional and everlasting love.” ~ Tini

I love you and miss you so much Tini. Hugs and kisses to you in heaven. xx 😘 💛🌻

“Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.” James 1:2-4

02/23/2024

My heart just aches tonight.

The news of a UGA student taking their life last night and this afternoon a sweet AXO Senior sister who went for a run this morning and never returned to be found passed away with injuries…it’s too much.

I’m heartbroken and crushed for these precious families and for all our sweet AXO sisters and the UGA Community.

Lord have mercy.

Lord wrap your loving arms of comfort and strength and peace around these families, these friends, the entire UGA Community and my sweet AXO Girls know that I’m here for each one of you and I’m weeping with you all and I’m praying nonstop. ❤️💚🙏

“Our bond is strong here. It stretches far and wide and it lasts a lifetime.” ❤️💚

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Alpha Chi Omega Atlanta Alumnae Chapter - Alpha Gamma Alpha
Alpha Chi Omega Connection

10/17/2023

Thank you to anyone who has supported! All of this money will be used for scholarships for students in financial need.

10/16/2023

Can Spark in the Dark be every weekend?