Catie Hoeppner
From Nursing in Indiana to Building Hope in Guatemala.
With over a decade of nursing experience and a deep love for Guatemala, Catie Hoeppner is answering God’s call to provide trauma-informed, holistic maternity care to women who have few options. Through Esperanza Naciente, she’s bringing hope to a new generation—one mother, one baby at a time.
My Story
My name is Catie Hoeppner, and I am from Fort Wayne, Indiana. I received a nursing degree in 2003 and worked in family and midwifery practices for about 13 years in the states. In 2007, I traveled to serve with a short-term team in Mexico for the first time. I quickly fell in love with Latin American culture and sensed that I would someday serve long-term in another country. After visiting a children’s home in Guatemala in 2016 with a small group from my church, I felt that Guatemala was the country that God was calling my heart to. I served with Kids Alive International for a little over 3 years as a nurse at their home for sexually abused girls. During my time with Kids Alive International, God opened my eyes to the need for better maternity care options for the pregnant girls living in the home. Over the years as I have lived and served in Guatemala and continued to hear stories of the lack of compassionate and quality care that many women received during their births, I developed a deep passion for Guatemalan women to have access to trauma informed and holistic maternity care. As this passion continued to grow, God placed a vision on my heart to open a birth center in Guatemala that will provide this type of care and Esperanza Naciente Maternity Ministry was born. To learn more about this ministry, please visit our website at the link above. In my free time, I love to cook, travel, craft, and puzzle with friends. I also love to chat with my family back in the states or play a game of virtual Yahtzee. I’m the oldest of three sisters and have three amazing nephews. God has also gifted me with a Guatemalan daughter, Sol. Sharing life with her has been one my deepest joys.
Why Maternity Ministry?
In Guatemala, most women do not have access to compassionate and quality maternity care. Traditional midwives who may tend to treat women in a more compassionate way, often do not have any medical training to be able to manage birth complications. Public hospitals, on the other hand, that may have physicians available to treat complications often are difficult for women to travel to and treat women very poorly. Private maternity care providers are not accessible to the majority of women due to extreme poverty.
We cannot do this work without others joining us! Jesus is changing lives and we hope you can be a part of this ministry. We are empowered to raise our financial support.
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IMN, Attn: Catie Hoeppner
P.O.Box 688 Noblesville, IN 46061
