Food, a hot shower, clean clothes and a few hours where no one will hurt her or demand anything from her.
About
The heart behind the Hoff Foundation
Pastor Judy Hoff, Richard Hoff and a community of volunteers who believe in a hand up, not a handout.
Judy Hoff. Photo: Bo Brusco, Lynnwood Times
Meet Judy
Pastor Judy Hoff
Founder and Executive Director, Hoff Foundation
Judy Hoff is an ordained pastor with the Foursquare Church, founding pastor of New Creation Church, and founder and Executive Director of the Hoff Foundation. She holds a BA in Biblical Studies from Puget Sound Christian College and degrees in Chemical Dependency and Biblical Counseling.
She went from business owner to servant of the broken, and has lifted thousands of battered, broken and homeless women out of devastation and into empowerment and self-sufficiency. Women once declared hopeless have become nurses, counselors, business owners and leaders.
She opened Esther's Place in 2014 after seeing a homeless woman trying to sleep in a garbage can in downtown Everett, and named it for the biblical Esther. It began in the basement of First Presbyterian Church, moved to a house on Broadway in 2021, and now serves women from a larger space at 1 W. Casino Road in Everett.
"Start small. Start where you are. Start with what you have."
Judy Hoff, Seizing Compassion
Our mission
"To break the dysfunctional cycle which leads to sex trafficking, compromised mental function, abuse, addiction, homelessness, or trauma in women and children."
Judy's motto has never changed: Transforming Communities One Woman at a Time. When you help one woman break the cycle of abuse, you change three generations to come. Judy and her husband Richard also pastor New Creation Church together.
The full journey
How a woman walks from crisis to purpose
Detox, medical care, social workers, benefits and a path toward housing.
State-certified transitional housing with structure, accountability and people who care about her success.
Trauma Reboot, forgiveness workshops, counseling and life skills, because the trauma came first.
Queen It's a New Day helps her see herself as the valuable woman God created her to be.
She graduates, works, builds her own life and turns around to help someone still in the darkness she came out of.