Hidden Gems: Meet Suge Imhoff of EWoman Global Ministries

Today we’d like to introduce you to Suge Imhoff.

Hi Suge, so excited to have you with us today. What can you tell us about your story?
Hola! I am Suge Imhoff, an ordinary woman who learned to make extraordinary decisions and take steps of illogical faith in action. I have always been an entrepreneur with high energy.

I’m always looking on the bright side of things, and I’m pretty strict with myself when it comes to getting things done. But I’m not afraid to take chances and have fun. I’m all about enjoying the little things – like brownies and chocolate cookies. And you better believe that when my favorite worship music comes on, I turn up the volume and blast them while driving. But this was not quite like that before.

I lived in deserts for almost 40 years.  The first one, I was born in an adulterous relationship. My father was a married man when he started the relationship with my mother, so I never lived with him, and I did not meet my relatives on my father’s side, nor did I have any relationship with his children. My access was permanently restricted to them. I got my first tag as the bastard daughter, the one born out of wedlock; I was rejected even by my father initially; he doubted that I was his daughter.

The second desert was when a pedophile came to live in my house. I became a slave who has for homework to do oral sex every day for almost two years after school at the age of 9 to my stepdad, who was 35 years old. This terrible experience left me with so much hurt, pain, and trauma in my whole being. My identity was hijacked when I came to this world.

In the next 29 years, I lived in every one of these deserts: Paternal absence, physical and emotional violence, a suicide attempt with my second baby in my womb because of my husband’s abandonment, divorce for adultery, and physical abuse, lack of child support and raising two boys by myself for 12 years, fear of being alone was what led me to end a relationship and immediately start a new one, financial bankruptcy twice, survived two surgical interventions, been about to lose the lives of my children, one at birth and the other at the age of 4, both miracles of God, living in the desert of performance rather live in authenticity, highly focused in doing and becoming more than simply being that is why I took refuge in get knowledge and more knowledge to prove to the world that I have value.

I know this is a lot, but because of them, I am now who I am, and I know what I was born for. In 2014, I had a powerful encounter with God; on my 38th birthday, I cried out to God, asking Him many “why’s.” Why me? Why have so many bad things happened to me if I am a good woman? He answered me, “Just hold on and be prepared, even when you don’t understand why or for what you need to be prepared.” He was saying that He couldn’t get me out of my present desert at the moment but assured me that on my 40-year birthday, He would rescue me once and for all.

I will never forget His spectacular voice – YES!! God spoke these exact words while I was praying on my knees, and I did not understand anything.  I cried a lot for having to endure more time. But I said, “Okay, my Lord, here I am, and I will be until You decide the right time for me” I spent my 39th year expectantly waiting to see if God would change His mind, but He did not.

I was desperate to get out of a season in which I had lost everything, a house, and a car because I broke up with my partner. We bought assets together; he kept them, sold them, and didn’t give me the money I invested. After all of this, I decided not to continue my plans anymore. It was not working for me; I surrendered to God so he would take me out of Egypt and teach me how to live out of slavery.

During those two years of waiting for my promise, I faced the most demanding life challenges. I was in a bad situation financially, being a single mom for 12 years with two boys, I lost all sudden my clients in my company which had been gaining success in recent years, but this desert differed from previous ones because I learned to rely entirely on God, I was so distant from him before. I started to spend a lot of time with Him, knowing that He was watching over me and observing how well I navigated those difficulties.

In 2015, I received my certification in Orlando, Florida as a Leadership mentor and speaker by John Maxwell.  I was already receiving invitations to speak at conferences as a keynote speaker and to train people in companies about Leadership and resilience; I was also serving in the local church, where I started to assemble.

Eleven months before my 40th birthday, to be exact on January 2016, He reached down from heaven and told me to start packing and selling all my stuff because I was about to move; my answer was God, I have a life here (I was living in Colombia), my life it is not good now but where are you taking me? At this point, I was working hard to keep my company.

I was broke, but even so, I opened a foundation called Mil Sonrisas Colombia (Thousands Smiles Colombia) to help low-income children and evangelize them and their mothers. I started with the help of one of my employees, then a friend of mine joined, the psychologist Carolina Romero. Together, we have reached more than 800 children so far.

Two months after God told me to start to sell everything, I accepted a mission in my Church to come to the USA to help in a plantation of a new church, evangelizing on the streets and preaching for a couple of weeks so I packed, leave my boys and the company in my sister’s hands and start to work for God without getting paid, I was so on fire for Jesus, because I was in so many difficulties, but he gave me peace. He was healing me and miraculously restoring my life.

And the end of my mission, God introduced me to my Husband, James Gregory Imhoff; he started texting me on Messenger out of the blue. He saw me in the John Maxwell Certification program private Facebook group, an American guy with three children who was in love with Jesus like me, I met him on May 15/ 2016, and three months later, he told me to move to America because he wanted to marry me, just like that!

Guess what? I said YES, he was the husband I was praying for, and we got married in October of 2016, just five months after we met, and here we are, almost seven years later. I did not speak English and my husband does not speak Spanish. crazy, right? We communicated through Google Translate for nearly a year until I could pronounce my first phrases in English.   So, GOD fulfilled his promise to me. He got me out of my last desert and sent me to a new land where I could start afresh in all aspects of my life. My 40th birthday was in December 2016 and God got me out of 50 days before his promise.

There are so many wonderful and miraculous details, and I hope to share them with you soon; I am writing a book!

So now you know what I compare my life to living in the desert, living the life of job, and living like the people of Israel who spent 40 years in the desert. During those years, I had moments in oasis-like achieving very high goals in my professional career, studying for three different degrees and MBA, very accomplished positions of Leadership in the Corporate Arena, and running my own Marketing Agency for ten years. Now, I know what Solomon was feeling after all of his outstanding accomplishments. You can have those and still live in the desert.

Behind each of these situations is a lot of pain; there are many tears, not only mine but also my mother, whom I love so much; she passed away in 2021, and my dad in 2022.  I have to thank so much, to my kids, who have been my most faithful companions in battles and my great motivators; there is a lot of time spent fighting and warring, but behind each of these struggles, there is something that never ceases to exist, and they were the thoughts that since I was a child I have had in my mind all the time I knew that God creates me for more, not to live as a victim because he gave me a strong mindset and encouraged me to go for more despite everything.

My natural logic often did not allow me to understand how, despite all these things that I went through, I was able to be one of the best students in school, at the University, to be outstanding in basketball in my country, how I was able to be successful in the world eyes but miserable and full of pain, totally broken inside. I pushed through the pain and battles. I only know that the supernatural power of God was always accompanying me, and for every trial, there was always a way out; I always feel that He sent angels around me who helped me, always His voice was speaking to me in those moments he allows me to have great mental strength amid the chaos that did not let me faint but instead kept me focused on moving forward.

So many times, my emotions made me doubt, question, and falter because my character was weak, and I did not understand the purpose behind everything, much less my purpose in life in those moments.

I understood that life is not about surviving, I was living in surviving mode for 40 years, but life is not about surviving. Life is about discovering your true identity and purpose in Christ and being brave to reach your God-given potential and destiny; I have not got it all; there is still more, there is always more for you, friend, and there is always Hope. Only by the grace of God, He allows me to speak now without resentment because I forgave everyone who hurt me in my past, and now I am more alive than ever to fulfill my mission.

Now I mentor women worldwide, I have had an online ministry for Hispanic women since 2015, reaching out to more than 15.000 women online. We started this year the ministry in English, too, because now I can speak English right now, we are re-branding our presence online because we are growing, and we have gone from being for Spanish-speaking women to now being global, expanding to all English-speaking women. We are a team of seven women so far, and we became a non-profit organization this year Ewoman Global Ministries, E Woman stands for Extraordinary Woman ewomanglobalministries.org

We have a podcast called Ewoman Leadership Podcast in Spanish, which is number one in the Christian leadership category in Spanish, and we are working on launching it soon in English.

Thank you for reading My story. I tried as much as I could to shorten it. It has been a long journey, and I hope it will bless your life; if I could overcome all of those deserts, you will too, and you will do it because God loves you too, and He will help you; you were born to achieve freedom and abundant life a life to live in a mission. NEVER GIVE UP!

Suge Imhoff
Founder and CVO
Ewoman Global Ministries
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Appreciate you sharing that. What should we know about EWoman Global Ministries?
EWoman Global Ministries is all about Equipping Women. Our five-fold ministry is dedicated to helping women establish a profound relationship with Jesus Christ. We provide activation, connection, training, and equipping so that women can fulfill their God-given identities, callings, and leadership roles and make an impact in the seven mountains of influence.

EWoman Global Ministries is for every woman who desires transformation and wants to experience the supernatural power of God in their daily life. It is for the warrior woman who recognizes that God has called her for a specific purpose in this generation.
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“We believe all women can embrace who they are in Christ, can discover their gifts and calling, and go and change the world around them with God’s power”.

​Here’s how we get things done:

Small Groups /Bible Studies/ Masterminds
Conferences
Mission Trips
Mentorship Program
Leadership Training in the Marketplace.
Serving Moms and kids in need in our communities.
Preaching and teaching in Churches, Businesses, Ministries, and organizations.

On my personal side, I am a Keynote Speaker, and I have a small inner circle that I privately mentor one on one.

Can you tell us more about what you were like growing up?
Despite all of the situations that I went through, I was an extroverted girl, who liked to participate in all extracurricular activities.

I was in my school’s dance competition group, and I was a model for several recognized brands in my country until I was 17 years old, and a basketball player in high school and College, super competitive and I had many friends.

Contact Info:

• Website: ewomanglobalministries.org
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ewomanministries/ https://www.instagram.com/ewomanglobalministries/ and https://www.instagram.com/sugeimhoff/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SugeImhoff
• Linktree: https://linktr.ee/ewomanministriesusa and https://linktr.ee/ewomanministries.org
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCea5r5XKJOj1hNAwd5gaCDw
• Other: https://www.johncmaxwellgroup.com/sugeidysarango/About