Reverend Tina Babcock
Director of the
Anne Douglas Center

Reverend Tina Babcock is the Director of the Anne Douglas Center. The Center helps women and children of Skid Row with emergency services and rehabilitation programs. She has returned to the Los Angeles Mission after a three year hiatus during which she worked with the elderly and disabled as a social worker for San Bernardino County.

Reverend Babcock came to the Los Angeles Mission in 1997 as a senior chaplain for the women‚s ministries in 1998. She became Director of the Anne Douglas Center and member of the senior executive team of the mission. She has a B.A. degree in Psychology and Certification as an Instructor in Domestic Violence Interventions, Conflict Resolution for Couples and Parenting Training. She introduced Parenting and Domestic Violence Classes and Couples Counseling to the mission. In her capacity as a Los Angeles Mission executive, she has acted as a consultant for other missions on program development and as an expert in domestic violence interventions, conducting seminars throughout the United States.

Prior to coming to the Los Angeles Mission, Reverend Babcock was Director of Battered Women‚s Services Shelter and Hotline for the San Diego YWCA. During her four years at BWS she developed training material to assist CPS works and other professionals in domestic violence intervention.

Reverend Babcock continues to make herself available to churches and parachurch organizations for trainings on domestic violence intervention and inner healing.
Reverend Babcock has been preaching and teaching the Bible from the age of sixteen and has served as a Bible Teacher in the Foursquare Gospel Church, the Wesleyan Methodist Church and a pastor in the Nazarene Church with a total of thirty-one years of ministry experience. She labored over a span of ten years in Christ Radio as a writer, producer and program host for KM JC and KECR Christian Radio stations in San Diego.

Reverend Babcock and her husband Paul Babcock attend and serve in Joy Community Church of God in Chino Hills, California and reside in Ontario, California.