‘I Was Grateful [She] Came Into My Life … I Got on One Knee and Proposed’

BY JE’DON HOLLOWAY-TALLEY | Special to the Birmingham Times MAURICE AND SALISIA VALENTINE Live: Pelham Married: June 3, 2006 Met: Fall 2001 at Jacksonville State University at a Gospel party hosted on their college campus. However, the two reconnected and became better acquainted in early 2004 at the New Life Apostolic Center in Anniston. Salisia said they were set up by their Apostle, Andra Cunningham. “Maurice was getting his resume together to apply for the Boys and Girls Club and he had Apostle Andra looking over it when [Apostle Andra] said ‘Hey, you need to ask CiCi to take a look at this’… I was in my art room and fixing to go home when Maurice came in and said, ‘Apostle told me to come and have you take a look at my resume.’ I was [annoyed]  because I was tired and ready to go home, but I did say I’d take a look at it,” Salisa recalled. Maurice was not met with warmth, “I went up there and she was mean,” he laughed, “but [after we sat down together] her whole countenance changed. I love working with youth, I was a youth pastor at the church at the time...