SAMANTHA HINZMAN

God bless you! My name is Samantha Hinzman. I am happily married to my best friend of 16 years whom I have 4 beautiful children by; 3 boys and 1 girl. I am a certified international chaplain and also a certified evangelist. We have an evangelism ministry called Life in the Desert Ministry; which includes jail ministry, homeless ministry, street ministry, evangelizing in and out of the churches… Taking Jesus wherever God leads us. To look at my life now, you would never imagine what all God has brought me through.

My life was not always this way. I was born April 5th 1991 in Avon Park, FL… but by 1993 I was already in foster care with 3 of my other siblings. By the time I turned 3 years old we were adopted to a married couple in Lakeland FL.  However, the father figure in this new family dynamic didn’t last long. He was having extramarital affairs with 2 other women and upon getting one pregnant he decided he wanted children of his own blood, leaving my new mom and us behind. He became a workaholic and I pretty much grew up without a dad from 4 years old till I was 10. My mother dated a few prospects but nobody wanted to settle down with a woman with now 5 kids… (She had a miracle baby during her dating stage) that was until she met my stepdad who, the day they got married, began viciously beating her almost every other day. It wasn’t long before the only parent I ever knew, became strung out on hard drugs and alcohol. We went through every type of abuse you can imagine. From mental, emotional, physical and even sexual abuse… We lost our home at 14 and spent many school nights sleeping in the truck being eaten up by mosquitoes to escape the abuse. I have had so many guns pulled on me that I was not afraid of death. In fact; I challenged God for it. I became suicidal and battled depression and many failed attempts over the course of 20 years (well into my adulthood) many times I’d ask God; “God if You’re real, take my life now.” I knew  it was said that God don’t make mistakes but I thought I was an exception. I grew to be very bitter angry and harboring unforgiveness in my heart. I left home for good at the age of 16 to be with children’s father. We got pregnant and had our first son when I turned 18.  However, because I didn’t have God in my heart, I couldn’t give what I didn’t have, which is love. We were 2 broken people, from 2 broken homes, who only knew everything that love was not. We went through everything meant to destroy us yet when we were desperate and hit rock bottom; God encountered us both individually.

He gave me healing, peace that surpasses all understanding, joy unlike any other. He gave me a new identity, something worth living for. It all started with forgiveness and surrendering myself completely. Trusting Him as my heavenly Father to be that dad I never had. And once He adopted me into His Kingdom I found what love is. It was then that He not only restored my relationship with my children’s father, but we got married and had our youngest son. And He even brought back my biological father after 30 years, who also gave his life to God and is a retired pastor. Everything the enemy thought he stole, God replaced, He multiplied. I believe in miracles because I am one.

Serving the last 7 years in ministry has not always been easy. We’ve encountered witches and high priests in santeria trying to curse us. We’ve been shot at and still went to serve the very next morning. If God covered me when I was living foolishly in the world how much more will He cover me now that I am about my Heavenly Father’s business? If God is for me, nothing can stand against. The only fear in me, is the fear of the Lord. It is what motivates me and encourages me to continue forth. Because I prefer my worst day in God versus my best day in this world. I know who I am. I am His.

That is my whole biography in one sentence: I am His.