About

Meet StÉphanie Lee Heimann 

The creator of ETK. She is a Christian, Canadian, wife, mother, and homeschool teacher, and formerly an elementary school teacher, piano teacher, and soccer coach. She enjoys reading, hiking, mountain biking, camping, stargazing, spending time with her family, and teaching children about God, and one of her greatest desires is that more and more children would come to know him. 

The ETK Story

God has been so good to me (Nahum 1:7). He appointed a path for me that I would not have chosen, but it is the path that led me closer to him. He is the Good Shepherd, and he led me into a storm so that I would know him more.  

In 2004, the Lord took my precious little baby, William. I sat in the doctor’s waiting room and wept. Darkness surrounded me and a question entered my mind, “Is God good?” For years I said he was, but suddenly I wasn’t sure anymore. I thought, “Somewhere in the Bible it must say that God is good,” but I didn’t know a verse that said He was. I cried to the Lord and said, “Who are you? I want to really know who you are.” When I got home, I opened the concordance and wrote out every verse I could find about the goodness of God. Week after week, I searched the Scripture for God himself, and I started to know him like I had never known him before. 

In the following years, in his kindness, he gave me more children, and he took away my health. I asked him to heal me, but he did not heal me right away because he wanted to give me something better. He forced me to be still, and in the stillness, he allowed me to know him like I had never known him before and knowing him is greater than anything I could have ever imagined. 

My health continued to decline. I prayed, “Lord, there are millions of reasons why I want to live and each reason has a name! So many children still do not know you, and I want to help reach them. And I long to live because I want to teach my children about you. But if it is not your will for me to live much longer, please let me live long enough to write several books for them so I can still teach them about you.” The first book is Encounter the King. 

Special Thanks

To all my friends who have helped make ETK possible, thank you! May our God make you happier than you could ever imagine. 

  • Stephanie Boehm designed the ETK Bible verse cards and the charts. 
  • Elizabeth Calvino designed the BookletsPostersThe Search, the shield on the resource guides, and she created the design concept for the A page in ETK: A Journey. Ararat photo ©B. Studio/shutterstcok.com. 
  • Emily Heinz designed ETK: A Journey and the I Am Loved bookmark. 
  • Jennifer Lowry illustrated ETK: An ABC Book About God, and she illustrated and colored the ETK Coloring Pages.
  • Audra Maher designed the ETK bookmarks, Word Searches, and Resource Guides. 
  • Ruth Schaub photographed the booklets for the booklet guide. 
  • Gretchen Seelenbinder designed the layout of ETK: An ABC Book About God, and she helps maintain the website. 
  • William Steeves made the ETK chant video. 
  • Mark Ward offered helpful suggestions (q) and is hosting the website. 
  • Billy Rae Whittaker designed the website and the ABC Coloring Pages. 

You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

Psalm 16:11 ESV