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| About Katie This is the long version. For the shorter press version, click on this sentence. Hi! My name is Katie Hoffman. Let me start by telling you about my passion as a speaker and writer. My PASSION is to see women exalt and cling to the Word of God more than feelings, emotions, or opinions. I want to help women desire to exalt God about all else. I want women to learn how to find joy in Christ, have satisfying and rewarding relationships, and be secure in their relationship with God because they know He loves them. I want to see women not settle for less than Biblical truth in what they believe. Many women who fear God are beginning to feel angry at the deception taking place in the so-called Christian market. They are fed up by “teachers” who only tickle ears, who want to promote the “good” feelings of their readers more than they want to promote God’s truth. They are grieved that many women are simply accepting what the world says as truth instead of seeking to learn and believe what the Bible says. I share this burden, and my vision in all I write and teach is to provoke women to seek God through His Word as if their very life depended on it. Because it does! Now before I go any further, let me tell you why this is my passion. When I was seventeen, I was driving in the car with my dad. He began doing the “dad” thing and asking me 101 questions about my future. His main concern and repeated question was, “What is the career that you are striving for?” I wanted to make my dad happy, yet my idea of a “career” was different than his. I was a senior in high school, and I KNEW what I wanted to do. I wanted to teach the Bible to women. It was my dream and my ambition. I also wanted to be the wife of a godly man and teach my kids the Bible diligently. I was going to Bible College the next year and after I graduated from Bible College, I was going to go on and get my degree in something else. But my real goal, and my deepest goal was just to know and teach the Bible. As we road in the car, my dad made plenty of suggestions: “Why don’t you write a letter introducing yourself and send it out to churches, telling them you will come and teach?” I was pretty sure that I could not do that. I figured that would lead to a whole lot of silent rejection. I knew that God would raise me up in His timing, and that His timing would be perfect. Other than my dad, I didn’t tell anyone else my dream. I didn’t want to seem like I was “striving” for a position. I just kept studying my heart out and learning all I could. I read my Bible as often as possible. I read books and studied Bible doctrines. I memorized and researched passages in the Bible. While I was at Bible College, I told only a couple close friends about my dream, and I continued to wait on the Lord. After I graduated from Calvary Chapel Bible College, I married my husband Todd. We lived in California and I went to work full time for a Tuxedo company. I tried to stay in school, but college wasn’t practical for our family so I had to stop. I then got my real estate license and began doing real estate. Within a year of doing real estate, we had our first son, Austin. I love being a mom! I would rock my son for hours while singing worship songs and reading to him out of the Bible. He would sleep and I would pray. New motherhood was a very special time for me. We then moved North in California to Bakersfield for a couple years and then back down to Orange County. At times my heart burned with such a desire to teach that it hurt. I would go to the women’s events at my church and even other churches. I tried different women’s studies, different formats, different authors. My heart burned most of all when I would listen to a teacher speak who seemed indifferent about the great privilege of teaching God’s Word. When teachers at Christian events would share things that were unbiblical, I wondered what their motivation for teaching really was. I knew I was in love with this wonderful living God. I wanted other women to experience the same depth in their relationship with Jesus that I had experienced. One time, as I listened to a woman stand on stage and publicly teach about a lifestyle choice she made that contradicted what the Bible says, I thought, “Who is this woman? Lord, what are YOUR standards for the women who teach your Word to women? What do You want?” Sometimes I would hear a woman who was obviously gifted, and I would drop my jaw in awe of how God was being glorified. During these times, I would think. “Who am I Lord? Who I am that You would ever consider using me?” But I know and I am convinced that it is all God's work. He gifts, He raises up, and He sets down. And He would raise me up in His timing, if that was His will. Finally, after years of waiting, the Children’s Ministry Director at that time(who is one of the godliest women I have ever met!—although I may be biased) at The Rock Community Church, in Yorba Linda, CA asked me if I would want to co-lead a Bible Study with her. I prepared and studied, but then some things come up and I wasn’t able to be a part of the study for the first few months. When I came back, Laura, who was leading the study, would call me to teach when she could not make it. During that time, I started receiving speaking invitations to go to other churches and speak to the women. I went and shared about the greatness of seeking God, of rejoicing in Him, and about how we can find greater joy in Him than from any other source. Teaching women the Bible has been my PASSION for all of my adult life. This is my dream come true. When I would hear women who didn’t give themselves wholly to their teaching, or who, God forbid, treated the teaching of the Bible as if they were doing the world a favor, I longed even more to be used by God. I realize that the privilege of being able to teach the Bible is GREAT. I am doing no one a “favor” by teaching God’s Word—God is showing me “favor” in ever using me! I am the blessed one! I am the one who can continually give thanks to my precious Lord and Savior. And this is why I teach. I want God to be exalted. I don’t want to just to just tickle ears! That is my great fear: That I will become “well liked” because I started telling people what they wanted to hear, and because I tried to please people at the cost of pleasing God. Now I don’t mind if I’m liked! Just never at the cost of twisting God’s Word. My hope is that women will not allow themselves to be led astray by silly “fables”, but will always seek what is true. I am frustrated by the authors and teachers who promote what will make women “feel” good at the expense and sacrifice of truth. It breaks my heart and even makes me angry, the way Jesus was angry at the money changers in the temple—who sinned and led people astray for their own gain and promotion, in God’s name! The road is narrow that leads to life. I want to be able to help the women who are on the narrow road! If I could be used by God to stir women up—women who are truly seeking God and want to know Him more—if I could benefit and help those women to know God more, to find greater joy in Him, to love Him more, and to have made their life more eternally valuable, that is my goal and dream. You who are reading this are those women! I want to see you flourish in your walk with God! I want to see you be free from anxiety, from feeling like you don’t measure up or like you are less “spiritual” than you need to be, and I want to see you grow deeply in your walk with God. I want to see you seek truth with your whole heart and be satisfied with nothing less! Click Here to Read Katie’s Testimony |
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