My dear dear family

So i have hit a new phase in my life, its a new one for me. I'm scared... I think I've finally come to terms with that fact.. BUT I'm stoked about it!!!!! what a grater way for Our faithful God to show his love,mercy,comfort and POWER!

So my prayer is that the lord will place my name on your heart and you would find yourself praying for me in my times of need. SO if you 'randomly' think of me at some point in time, please lift me up, ask the Him for words. I also do the same for you!...
I feel there is something big going down that i need to be apart of, The time and place i'm unsure. I feel my self getting a little worked up and scared about being used in a big way. My heart is willing my mind is scared.

You are all in my thoughts and stories often!.. for really i talk about all of you a lot... 'like This one time at bible college' (said in a girly, twinky way)Bahaha.
Ok not so much like that but similar. Mostly i say how much i love and miss you all. But I'm so pumped when i think about where you all are, and who you serve. Praise God!! He spread us ALL OVER!! its weird.. i never knew i could be so excited about not being with people i love!.. BUT I AM!!!
Love you lots
Peace out!
michelle

oh and the new word on the street is DODDY!.. its makes me laugh every time!!..say it as often as you can!..I do!!

Ohhh....P.S.

I blog a lot over here

www.grand-adventures-of-the-dot.blogspot.com

Do any still blog? I love blogs! But not as much as I love you guys.....AND Jesus!

This is me!!

Hey Family!!
I am so sorry that I have not given you guys an update in a long time, a lot has happened!
So this last summer was incredible!! I was working on the most amazing CIT team with Tyler Cassidy, Kristie Voth and the one and only Jim Badke!!! Working with the CITs was the most amazing thing ever. I was living out my passion; God blessed me so much with those guys and an incredible love for them, it was such a blessing to be able to Baptize one of the girls with Kristie!! I learned a lot of lesions (with the help of my team!), but the two biggest ones were finding joy and rest. I was incredibly tired for most of the summer and learned the difference between physical exhaustion and emotional. It is very hard to learn how to rest especially when you are a restless person, but God is patient and faithful and is still teaching me what it means!!
Before the summer started I applied to go to Birercrest this fall and by no surprise got accepted. This was definitely a huge step of faith as I had no idea what I was going to take or how I would get the money, or any details, but I knew that I needed to do it to almost (for lack of a better term) prove to myself and God that I trust him. But in contradiction to that I realized that I needed to be at home this fall and rebuild some relationships, rest (though I hate to admit it) and to re-establish home before I keep going (applying for Briercrest was what I needed to do, but I am not attending yet, if that makes sence.). So I started to really pray and figure out what that would look like. It started with a road trip to the Grand Canyon with 7 close friends before I came home. It was a dream if mine and somthing that I had been preying about for a long time So yeah the week after camp ended we headed down to LA via a 36 hour train ride and hit up Disney Land, Las Vegas ( I don't recommend it),and the Grand Canyon!!! It was incredible...I learned a lot about chillin out and letting other people take control and just about being... It was incredible and I very highly recommend it!!!
So since I have been home from the trip I have been looking for a job and just hanging out. I am having a very hard time finding a desire to do anything, I am not sure if I am just lazy or resting... I am trying to think of things to fill my time with like a hobby or something but realizing that I don't really have any. I am feeling like I am in a place where I have no passion or desire or focus for anything. But I also feel like this is just a short time, like the New Year God has some huge plans that I am going to be living out. It kind of makes it hard to commit to anything because I don't really want to ditch out on people, but I honestly don't know what to do...
I am realizing the hypocrisy in my life and trying to figure out how to rid that out of my life, but at the same time not spending the needed time in the word to be living after Christ's example. It is so weird, I am almost in a place of Apathy, since when am I, Sheri Geiger apathetic?? Or am I just at a stage where I need to rest and not think hard about anything? I am not too sure!
Anyways, I am living in a super cheep ( and colourful) condo with my sister right now, which is amazing, because our relationship needs lots of work and God has provided this as a sweet place to do it!!!
I am also attending LFBC again and love it so much!! I have never enjoyed that church, but am so blessed by it right now and though I am not involved in ministry right now am hoping to be on the missions committee as I am wanting to be doing missions....We will see!!
I do have a very part time job right now at the boys and girls club, and am hopefully getting another job at a coffee shop in Ladysmith it would be ideal for these two jobs to work out.
I am wanting to save up to go travelling to NZ and Auzzie, or to go to school (I once again am not sure at all!!)
So this is me I am sorry if it doesn’t make sense at all and if it is scatter brained. I am hesitant to write this stuff out because I can see how it could be portrayed as a sob story, but it is not that at all, I am so excited for what God has been doing and what he is doing and what he will be doing in my life! I love you all so much and miss you a lot!!!
~Sher Hope (lol how appropriate!!)
PSALMS 52 read it!!! It’s incredible!!!!

Speckled Trout

Hey everyone! It has been an awfully long time since I have wrote on the blog and why not do it while I'm feeling sentimental? Where to begin? Tonight our floor meeting actually prompted me to write this blog, that combined with spending the past weekend with Kev, Katie, Jord, Rob, Al and Dan put all of you on my heart.
For any of you who don't know I am back at Ambrose this year finishing my degree in Behavioral Sciences this year. The long term plan right now is to graduate this year, take next year off of school, possibly travel if I can find someone who wants (or can) go with me (consider that an open invitation!!) and then go back the next year for a two year masters program in education, butttt all of that is long term and the Lord can definitely change that at any time.
The fall has been... good. So different than I thought, but incredible in so many ways! I am doing 6 classes each semester this year so that I can graduate (unfortunately camp ministry just didn't transfer as a credit ;) ), and there are times I feel so overwhelmed.. Short term pain for long term gain is what I keep reminding myself.
Tonight at the end of our floor meeting,( which unfortunately I generally find pretty superficial) but at the end I really felt God prompt me to share with the floor about my moms illness last year and the incredible answer to prayer her regained strength has been! I also mentioned I feel that sharing what God is doing in our lives is a huge part of community (generally no one shares, our RA reads some scripture from the week) and then one of the girls shared she is currently being attacked by Satan and asked for prayer. Katie (who it has been amazing see her in Ambrose community, she's truly a huge blessing for us!) actually had us all go over to the girl and we as floor prayed for her right then and there which I hope will have broken down a lot of barriers on our floor, it is so powerful to pray together.
I am on "CPT" this year which is a planning committee for the Ambrose youth conference in March, and this has been the greatest source of my spiritual growth this year. I am definitely learning a lot about myself through this, as well as youth ministry, but the most incredible part has been the awe inspiring answers to prayer we as a team have been blessed with. When we were choosing our theme verse for the conference one guy read a verse, and it turned out one of the girls had shared the exact vision of that verse on our retreat, and another had journaled that verse earlier that day. Another time one of the guys on our team had torn his cornea and was unable to see and within an hour of the time we prayed for him he was healed. I am so thankful for the opportunity to be on this team.
I am so thankful to have Katie and Al here this year, and I am not just saying that because it seems likely they will eventually read this blog! Thanksgiving was an amazing time this year! It was incredible to have so many of you able to come to my home this Thanksgiving and meet my family. My parents this Thanksgiving truly blessed me! I think back to last year in the hospital and the pleading prayers that went with it, and to see my mom healthy this year was an amazing reminder that God answers prayer. As well just spending with my dad who somehow manages to relate every situation to an eternal perspective was so refreshing when I am feeling so overwhelmed with school.
I can't wait to hear how the rest of you are doing! I love each of you .

Enter his gates with thanksgiving,
and his courts with praise!
Give thanks to him; bless his name!
—Psalm 100:4

Reunited at Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Man, for some reason the quality of this vid stinks after posting it...Here's the story:

Jahnaya's dad comes home one day and tells us that there are hundreds of geese in a slough. I, naturally, cannot wait to hunt them. The group gets together after church on Sunday with bats, forks, spoons, and marshmellow roasting sticks in hand, ready to hunt a bird.

The slough was more like a lake. A frozen lake. "Don't worry" Jahnaya says,"It's only knee deep anyways." We proceed to go far out onto the ice, sketched out the whole time as we hear it cracking beneath us. Unfortunately you cannot see just how covered the sky is with crazy geese... but you should be able to hear them.

We get home after our adventure, sharing our story with Jahnaya's parents. It was then that we were informed that a five foot fence runs through that area, and is completely covered by the lake/ pond/ body of water. Sweet times when Jahnaya's misinformation nearly KILLS us! But we had a FUN time! Woot woot!

African Children Choir!

I love Mac's and their built in camera's! I miss you guys and always check the blog for updates and forget to post on it! But You are all loved and missed and I'm so overjoyed to see the Lord continuing to lead and shape your lives! Please excuse my big head in this video, If I had a puppet I would use it, but as it is I can only fit so much in the 1 suitcase i'm allowed to have for the year on the road!

this may not have worked

Reppin' K5 in Calg.