Over the last half of 2017, we were oft met with the question, “What are ya’ll doing these days?”, to which we would reply, “Waiting on the Lord!”

‘Waiting on the Lord’ may not be en vogue with modern culture, but it’s still the way the Lord chooses to work many times in the hearts of individuals to remind us that our greatest Gospel work this side of Glory is simply knowing Jesus, not ‘doing all the things.’ Obviously we are not oblivious to the great need for the preaching of the Gospel or the needs that accompany it (especially in this last hour), but we were gently spurned on to remember that our greatest work unto the Lord always – and without fail – flows out of our greatest intimacy with the Lord. 

Helping to plant and establish a new church was not on our radar. Honestly, I’m grieved when I see the sheer number of churches in any given small town, USA – all within a couple of miles of each other. We live in a land that should be ‘flooded with light,’ yet we have more darkness and division than ever. Please hear my heart when I say, praise God for all of those churches out there – big and small – that are still preaching the Gospel and desiring a move of God’s Spirit among their people, but if you’re a believer with any discernment at all of the times in which we live, you understand that a simple google search of churches in your area is going to yield a LOT of different ‘gospels’ being preached from any given pulpit. It’s common for people to say, “Well people interpret the Bible a lot of different ways. Just live your truth!” But that’s not right or biblical. There’s one truth, one answer for every ill that ails mankind — Jesus Christ and Him crucified — and we don’t shy away from saying that just because it’s not popular.

So, this is us, saying that we don’t have a ‘launch team,’ or ‘agenda,’ or a five year vision cast presentation that we could show you, but we do have one clear mission: souls. We don’t have a target age group or social stratum, but a burning desire that any hungry, broken, sin sick soul – young and old, rich and poor – would come to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ, living the abundant, victorious, overcoming life that He paid for them to have on Calvary’s Cross. We’re probably not even close to being politically correct, because politics has never saved anybody. While it would never be our ‘goal’ to offend anybody, we recognize that the Gospel in itself is offensive to the natural heart of man, and sometimes it has to cut before it heals (Mt. 11:6; 1 Cor. 2:4; Heb. 4:12).

To that end, the Lord led us to the Shreveport-Bossier area this past November of 2017 where we established Way of the Cross Church. If you’re in the area and are a part of a good, Gospel preaching church, we rejoice with you and encourage you to dig in to the Word and work of God where He has planted you. We implore those of you who may just be looking on from afar to lift us up in prayer because the harvest is truly plentiful here and we can’t do what God has called us to do without the help of the Holy Spirit. If you’re in the area and would like to visit us sometime, please contact us! We have several meeting places at this point until the Lord leads us to move forward in the procurement of a more permanent location, so calling and/or texting us is the best way to find out where we will be having service.

Our current meeting times are as follows:
– Sundays @ 10AM
– Wednesdays @ 6:30PM

You can contact us through the following means to find out our meeting location:
– Email: thehoffmanherald@gmail.com
– Call/Text: (318) 480.1351

We love you and we pray that you are encouraged to continue to “fight the good fight of faith (1 Tim. 6:12)” today, throwing the weight of your trust on your God who cannot fail! Thank you for agreeing with us in prayer and for standing with us in faith as we go forward with Jesus, preaching and teaching Message of the Cross (1 Cor. 1:18).

But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that
while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 5:8