Michelle says:

Yo YOU ALL COMMIN TO MY HOUSE DISL ON SATERDAY NIGHT AFTER THE WED'S.

WE'Z Gunna Have a SWEET TIME!!

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SO for thoes of you who are on the Island for saterday the 7th for the Jones wedding you are comming to lake cowichan after to stay at sheri and I's wounderful place.. and have some good old fashion K5 Fun!.. BE THERE!!!!
I'll Even clean for you!!!

Give me a Holla if your going to come! .. Oh and i expect all of you to HoLLA.

LaterZ
Michelle

Steve says:

Hey Family.

I've had in on my many calendar's to post on here for a while, and so here it goes.

Well, to recap my life a bit, I'm working at my camp and working on starting a kids ministry called "Kids Zone" on Saturday mornings.

Just today, with my army of 25 Volunteers we performed a sucessful "Blitz" where we went door-to-door to invite kids to the program and let their parents know what is going on. Our goal was to go over all of winkler, and even though lots of ppl thought we were crazy, we totally did it! So Praise God for that! I konw we had a lot of ppl praying for us! And it was so much fun too! I got 1500 Kids Zone flyers printed and we were left with 62!

This coming saturday is our Kick off event, the first saturday morning of 13 this spring. I'm really very excited. God blows my mind daily with how he provides, and hes been teaching me a lot too.

With the kids ministry I'm starting, and even just being at camp I'm constantly being stretched a lot. every day really. I am given tasks or I'm working with ppl that i on my own strenght would not be able to do, but its by being stretched like that, that I am drawn closer to God. And each time I work on something, God seems to see fit to make things work out better than I imagined.

God is always showing me how he's in control. And i don't even need to try to be. He shows me how hes made me capable, and he wants me to give everything my all. And then how he takes care of the rest.

He also has been using my relationship with my best friend james to me us both better men of God. God has given me James and we are discussing everything, and it's a crazy cool thing.

But i digress, i could go on forever. Basically, I'm in a good place. I love my life. I love the challenges that arise, and I'm very excited for the future.

I love you all, its great to see updates on here.

And Lewis and Ellie, let me wish you my congratulations here, as I will not be making it out to your special day due to the launch of said kids ministry on the 7th. But I'm SO excited for you, all the best!!!!

-Revolutionary Steve

Alberta

Hey my friends!
Just wondering if there are any of you driving in and out of Alberta for the wedding? WESLEY DONG would like to tag along if its possible!

Be expecting an update from me very soon, okay! I'm getting married in two weeks! How crazy is that?
Love you all,
El

Hey there ferrie friends!!!

Hey guys!!! So I am just wonering who all is coming out to the beautiful wedding of Ellie and Lewis. Acctually I think that I know this already, more importantly I am needing to know when everyone is getting to the island, who wants to stay with Meesh and I and for how long. if you don't know this yet that is alright, i was just hoping for an esimit!!! I am so stoked to see you guys in just few weeks!
I love you all!
~Sheri

What the heck!! There's already a Kaleo SEVEN!!!?*&#&$?!!

my heart....

Ok K5...I have been debating writing this post for a very long time. But, I have decided that the right thing for me to do is to be completely real with all of you and maybe a little vulnerable...which isn't something that comes easily to me. So, please bear with me and any ramblings that may occur in this post. Here it goes...

My heart is hurting. I am at a place in my life where I don't know the next step and I am scared out of my mind. And I know that I should just give it all to God and trust him, I really do. But I'm not so sure that I know how to do that anymore, or if I ever really did. I want so badly to do what God wants me to do, but I am having trouble knowing what is coming from God and what is coming from my head. I am in such a confused and troubled state that I don't know which way is up. There have been some things that have happened recently with friends and boys that leave me feeling so hopeless. All I want to do is run away; but is that what I should do? And I am not usually an emotional person, I don't cry...like at all. But lately everything has been bringing tears to my eyes. I feel like I cry everyday and most days I don't even know why. I just start thinking about everything and I guess I get overwhelmed or something and I just don't know how to deal with it. And I am terrible at letting others in...my best friend is always saying that she wishes she knew what was going on in my head. She wants to be there for me, but there is something in me that is shutting down to others. I don't, I can't let others in and it's not only affecting me, but it's affecting all of my relationships.
And home....well, I don't really know what to say about home. It's terrible and it's only getting worse. Teresa (my step-mom) is terrible to me. She is nasty and mean and her words and actions hurt. I don't understand what I do that makes her hate me so much and neither does my dad. My dad asked me to try to get along with her and talk to her when I come home, let her know what's going on in my life. But when I try she either yells at me or completely ignores me. And then she complains to my dad that I never talk to her. I don't understand and I don't know what else I can do. I've tried and tried but nothing works. Their marriage is heading downhill and fast. I recently went to my dad in tears and told him that I didn't know how long I could live under such tensions because it's honestly destroying me, and he told me that he didn't want me to get hurt anymore and that I don't have to put in any effort now. He always tells me that I have been through enough and that I don't deserve to be treated the way that she treats me. And it kills me to see how defeated my dad is in this whole thing too. I just feel so lost and hopeless and again, I want to run.

And then there is the pressure to decide what I want to do in September. Dad wants me to have my mind made up by the end of next week and I don't even know where to start. I have been accepted to different universities and colleges here in Ontario...but is this where I want to be? Who knows!?! I sure as heck don't!

I just feel like I am being whittled away to nothing and I can't do anything about it. On the up side though, I am going to BCrest on Sunday and I can't wait to get away for a little bit and to see you guys who are there!

I guess this whole post was really just asking for prayer...a lot of prayer. Please, pray hard for me and my family and my friends. Pray hard for my life's direction. Pray hard for my heart to be mended. Pray hard for the lies that Satan feeds to me be rejected. Pray for the strength of the Lord to be my strength in this battle that I am constantly fighting. Please pray...

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My heart is filled with so many different feeling a the moment.
I have just spent the last 45 mins creeping on all the other kaleo blogs. I was blessed by a slide show on the K6 blog... a little peek in to there wonderful world made me smile. When i read the posts of the soon to be kaleo 7's my heart was brought so much Joy!!!.. To know what i was thinking at that point in time 2 years ago (AHHHH that long ago ... CRAZY) I'M SOOOOOOOOOO SOSOSOSOOOOOo o...(breath) Excited for them!

SO a little up date on Michelle.
Well i have started a full time job ... PRAIS JESUS!!!!!! I'm making sushi!!!... so i started 3 weeks ago and my life has been a little crazy ever since. The first week was kinda heard because i had no idea what i was doing.. But now it feels like i have been doing it for ever... I'm even training a new girl that we hired this week. SO its crazyness at work. BUT work is not why i am here .. and I need to remind my self that alot. So when i am tired after a long day and hear a knock on my door i have to say to my self the words God gave Mordecai ...For such a time as this God has put you in this position...

I wish i could put to words the desires of my heart but i have never been so good at that. God has given me a desire for youth and a desire to come along side of those who are desiring growth.

Ever since moving to LC God has give Sheri and i some cool moments.
I have been blessed By some Sweet conversation with some of the girls here. Those conversations have brought me great Joy but also break my heart. But I praise God for How much some of my youth have changed. I can see God work in there hearts and it bring me much Joy! But please keep this broken town in your prayers. There is much going on and most of it is not good. The youth here are full of heart and pain and don't know what today with it so they party and get high. And i pray for Change in a BIG way for this place.

some thing that need prayer..
well other then the summer coming up i have no idea what i am to be doing in the fall... Part of me want to go back to school, parts of me what to go home, Prats of me want to just back one bag and Go any where and every where, and a small part of me thanks that maybe staying here for another year would not be so bad. So please pray that Gods will is made clear.. Like crazy clear.. Like he paints BIG arrows on the side of the road saying MICHELLE GO HERE!!!.. that would be great!!!!


I would just like to share with you that i just spell checked and not a lot of words were spelt wrong... yaya for spell check .. uoforch it does not detect grammer and all that jazz and when i spell a word right but just the wrong kind of spelling for what i want to use if for .. you know what i mean ... or maybe not but W/E

Well I love you lots! and miss you SOSOSOSOSOSOOOOOooOOOooOOoOoW much!!... now close your eyes and feel the embrace... YEP THAT WAS ME ... Givng you the BIGEST HUG EVER!!!!

May Christ bless you where ever you are, My heart is brought Joy when ever i think of you Because i know you are spreading Christs love where ever you go!.. I am so bless to have you as my family!

Love you lots
Michelle
p.s I don't know why i put that picture up .. but there i am .. .. with bread... i ate that hole thing you know.. ya.. it was great... sower dough... ya i felt kinda grouse after that. Any WHO... NIGHT

hmm... not quite what i expected

heeey my Kaleo family!! thanks for all yur wonderful posts updating us on your lives, i've quite enjoyed them. ok so this message might be confusing cuz it's been a horribly long day, but please bear with me.
So today I was supposed to go boarding in sunshine with my sister and her friend. We left at 4 this morning and her friend was driving. We were doing really well and were soooo close to banff, when we got in a car accident. It was crazy.. i was looking down at something, heard an "uh-oh", looked up an a milisecond later i was screaming cuz of the impact of us hitting another car. we were going around 90 clicks too... kinda fast. it's a little confusing accident to explain cuz there were 4 vehicles involved and it took us forever to agree between all of us, but yeah the point is that God kept us safe and we're alive. if you could pray for the super achyness and lack of being able to sleep for fear of crashing i would really appreciate it. Anyways, we finally got a ride with a tow-truck back to canmore and then a ride from someone in calgary back to calgary (where i got to hang out with Jay and Al at ambrose which was amazing!!), and then my rents came and got us from calgary. So it's been a 16 hour day. but praise God that we're all okay!!! woooo
Right so other than car accidents, I've been at the u of a going for elementary education this year. now that it's finalized i can tell you all too.. i got this scholarship from the uni to study in Peru for a semester!! i'm really really excited :D I'll be leaving beginning of august and coming back beginning of january. i'm really excited for this opporutnity and so curious to see why God wants me to be there.
Sooo, i think thats about it.. I love you all alot :)

ya the painting is not something i did..one of our profs told us that if we figured out the artist we would get a free dinner at his house soo i went online and found Mr.Know it All on Yahoo and couldnt post the picture on the site so gave me the link to kaleo so he could see it ..lol soo hopefully mr.know it all pulls through.
love jon

this is for school..