to be a better man, integrity

Hello K5, man Scotty T and I were talking the other day and we sure miss those kaleo days. It is good to hear from some of you and yes Michelle it is crazy to think about where we've all come from, where we are now, and where we are going.

Prayer is a very important thing, more than I know, everyone needs it and yet I kind of struggle to share concerns of mine. I guess cause there's a fear that you won't understand or care or get annoyed with the many concerns of people. I myself get annoyed and don't care...oh the ways of God, his love is impossible. At Metro we are making way into the 2010 spring semester and I have hopes for it to be awesome! Hopes that God moves in a way that I see and can praise him for it. I've been learning more about how I cannot trust myself and it is actually pretty scary when I do. Thank God for his grace!

In internship Mar 09 and last semester Sept09 I've lacked personal time alone with God, devotion. I knew that this is so important, yet I did not make the time for it. I felt I couldn't semester being so busy. I believe that because of this last semester was a struggle for me. My team scared from it also. I want to change, be a better man for my team, the kids. I suck at remembering names and that is a struggle because I know a kid sees more care if you know them by name. Anyways they have this thing called an encounter which I signed up for taking place March 4,5,6...pretty sure. I would ask for your prayers that God can really meet me, and that I could get close to him like never before. Pray that it will help and encourage me for personal time with God and the tasks ahead. I want to be a better man, INTEGRITY to intern bless others. Pray. And of course I shall return the favour for you (1 Tim 2).

Please Pray

Hey guys, I cant say too much but I just ask for prayer for my family, my brother and sister-in-law specifically. I trust that the Lord will guide your prayers. Once again we are being faced with is Jesus enough?
I am sorry this is so vague. Love you all
~Sheri

Back at home

Hey everyone!

it’s wonderful to see everyone’s updates, and they have encouraged me to write one. I’ve just returned home (yesterday) from being on the road for 2 glorious weeks! It was a great pleasure to see as many of you as I did, thanks for making the time. I visited the guys at Briercrest, Kelsey in Edmonton, and then headed out to Vancouver and got to see Downey and Wall out there. All in all it was an awesome, refreshing time away from the regular routine.

But now I’m home and back at work and well… I love it! I’m working on planning the spring semester of Kids Zone and it’s so exciting! I can’t wait to be hanging out with all the volunteers and kids who are involved in it all. I simply love my job and must praise God everyday for being so good to me. He has truly blessed me beyond my imagination.
As good as it is, at the moment I do feel very inadequate, over my head, and scared about the task ahead of me. There is A LOT to do. But I’m ok with that though, cuz there’s no better way to get to turn to God for EVERYTHING than to feel like I’m not big enough. And I really am not big enough, but He is!

God is good, all the time and I’m just pumped about it. I hope you can say the same thing. I can’t wait to hear from all of you and hear about the things going on in your lives!

Love you all!
Revolutionary Steve

Ps. I love our blog title photo thing, it’s fantastic. Great work Joel!

Hello Sweet Children.

I really think that people are going to appreciate this.

i am home. all worries and doubts aside, this is where i belong for now. satan has a tricky way of messing with minds. thanks for prayers. God is good. ahh yes, it is good to be home.

blessings.
scotty.

I just love you all very much and wanted to let you know!
That was all I was planning to write when I opened up this text box, which is so very true and I wanted to express that but then I thought that I should let you all know where I am at in my life and heart. I can really not remember the last time I wrote on here, even though I read it very regularly. So my life ...
I am in my second year now which is exciting. I am still really loving it. I genuinely love learning and I get excited sometimes thinking about how the time I am spending right now reading and writing papers (though mundane at parts) is preparing me for the life God has called me to (even though I don't know exactly what that is yet). I am now doing a double major in Legal Studies and Peace and Conflict Studies. I am trying to live everyday here not looking only towards the future, which is so much the focus in University but to realize that God has called me to life here and now and can serve those around me in little (and big) ways. I still live in residence, which is wonderful and I love it. It is a really great community that teaches and challenges me in so many ways.
There has been some difficult times lately as well. My Poppy (that's what I call my grandpa) passed away on New Year's Eve. It was a hard time. I stood by his bed watching as he took his last breathes. It hurt my heart but at the same time it was full of peace and joy knowing that he was sitting at the feet of His Saviour. In his last hour we read Scripture and sang hymns and it was truly beautiful. He was a good man who loved Jesus and lived his life for him. It was a blessing to see God's faithfulness through this.
On another vein, I am in the midst of trying to make so many decisions for the summer and coming year. It seems so far away but I need to make some concrete decisions in the near future. The problem is that my heart is anything but concrete at the moment. It is being pulled in so many directions. It comes down to that I want to serve God and his children but I have no way in what capacity to that. There are a lot of opportunities, so I am just seeking wisdom and waiting at this point, which to be honest I am not a huge fan of. But once again God is faithful and that is where I need to be.
Oh! My sister is getting married, which is very exciting news in my family. Her fiance is a great guy and I am really excited for them. The wedding is in June and it is going to be beautiful!

I feel like there is so much more that I could say but pretty much that is my life right now. If anyone wants to know more I would absolutely love to chat with you. Also I love writing letters, so if you would like one just get me your address!
I love you all and really appreciate reading about where you are at and praising God for each of you.

Be Blessed to be a blessing,
Saint Catherine (though I am so very far from being a saint)

A Wimba way.

Hey all you fellow followers of Christ!! I have been loving reading all of the recent posts on here, and figure I should follow suit! I don’t remember the last time I blogged, but I will try and pick up from the midpoint last semester.
My first and foremost praise item is that this year my mom is back at work full time!! Thank you for all of your prayers and encouragement, this has been such a reminder of God’s strength and his faithfulness in answering prayer. My mom got me a fabulous little devotional book a while ago, titled “Miracles”, and each devotional focuses on a miracle God performed in the bible, it has been so encouraging and refreshing to be studying God as a miracle worker!
Beginning this semester I feel.. a lot of hope. I am not sure hope for what, but it is what I feel. I graduate in April and I legitimately have no idea what will follow that. I have been looking through different missions opportunities in orphanages, teaching English, or working for IJM (International Justice Mission). Yet, a part of me wonders if I should finish school first? My parents are really encouraging me to finish my school first, and maybe if I get my education degree I would be more valuable overseas?? I would really appreciate if you guys could pray for direction for my next year!
For any of you who don't know I moved out of res at Ambrose this semester! Katie Lesyk and I are living together, with one other girl. I loooveeee having our own place, so far making my own food has been pretty sweet too! But I will admit last night I made chicken that looked good on the outside, buttt when I went to eat it the inside was flaming pink! I hope this finds you all well, pursuing Christ!! Love you K5!

just a quick lil update.... lol no promises

I will try to make this quick .. try lol
So my last blogg was a bit of an emotional blogg... Necessary?.. i'm unsure of that yet. But what ever lol
So this last month has been a struggle for me But still the Lord is victorious! and will for ever be!!! the last week or so my heart has been lifted so much by Christ all around me its sweet! I have been tossing around the idea of leaving this town for a little bit.. I think that apart of it is longing to run away.. Partly because i feel stuck here and a little useless. So i've been chattin with God about it. What i have been getting is... don't go.. not yet... be here... You may not have a job... But your doing what i want you to do .. So stop having a pity party and do! Live it!
And THEN all of these small little opportunities have come up in just this last week.. Random conversations with girls in my youth, and some not in my youth group. He has provided me with time!.. time to spend with people and words to say! I LOVE HIM!! STINK!! Our God is SO COOL! He blows my mind right now just thinking about all of the ways that He is so evident in my days!!!! So i have started to see all of these little opportunities to serve him in a new way!! and its really rad! Knowing that I'm growing and i'm not who i was yesterday.. Because i grow more and more ever day and don't even stop to think about it some times. I thank you all so much for your prayers!!!! keep them up! i still feel like i need some sort of direction, some days i feel like i'm driving a car with no lights on.. in the dark... and i'm a little scared of the turns coming up.
I've been talking to YFC a lot lately!... I have fallen in love with that rad organisation and would love to one day be apart of that team!!! SO pray with me!
I love you all deeply and i'm so thankful for the time God gave us together!..And it pumps me up when i think about how much we all have grown.. How far we have all gone... It makes me feel apart of something much bigger then my self... like my heart is in 100 different places at once!
Know your in my prayers! and I think of all of you often!
Peace out mang!
Michelle
p.s I love that people still remember there names we got at the end of kaleo... well i know that scott and steve remember there's.. lol I have a crappy memory some times!.. k I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!

woooow.

let me just start off by saying that this rapid influx of blogging done by the bulk of you has been incredibly encouraging....(annnnd my vocabulary points go up major by the use of 'influx'). let me also tell you that i miss you all...not even just saying it, it's really true! as i'm writing, i'm in the vancouver airport about 20 minutes away from heading back to new york. the new yorker in me is pumped to go back, to live in a big city, to see my kids. but another part is thinking whyyyy the heck do i go, and quite literally put my life out there...one white boy in a sea of black faces in the ghetto, when i clearly would have a good life back home. this time at home has been refreshing, but it reminds me of the comforts that i COULD have if i chose to stay. or if i chose to settle for something that i wasn't meant to settle for. it really has hit me today and yesterday...packing up, saying final goodbyes, and now, sitting in the airport. i know it's the right thing, this right here. but it doesn't make it any easier. and it's not like i hate where i'm going either! God has been good...and called me to a place where i love the people and those that i work with...but it's still tough to swallow when there is a comfort bubble at home. thanks for bearing with me, hearing me out...i know that if i was talking in a chapel to you there would be tears streaming down my face (but really...what else is new!). i know that when i get back, and i see my kids, and i see those that i'm close to...that it'll all be ok. there's just moments...moments of wishing that the basic, ordinary, safe life was for me. buuuut that's boring. so it's not.
love you all
come and visit me so i can introduce you to my 6 little sisters (possibly my favorite family...oops. did i say favorite? haha).

graceful scotty.
scotty grace.
take your pick.

That's Kind of Personal

How many times have you found yourself wondering "Man, I wish I could hear Josh's voice again." or "Man, I wish I knew what Josh was doing this week."

Well now you can!

So as you may have seen on my Facebook status many times, me and Mr. Robin Zemek have started our own podcast called "That's Kind of Personal" and you can find us on iTunes or here on our blog

Basicly its about whatever we feel like talking about through the episode, from movies, to news, to vampires, to shoes, to girly magazine quizes...

So subscribe and tell your friends, I find it pretty funny at times.


Josh signing off!

I just want to Priase Jesus!!!

Hey guys!!

So Michelle and I were talking the other day about the blog and how I usually post when things are not going to well, well that needs to change!!

Things are going amazing right now!!! ( haha I am watching Ellen and she is laughing really hard I think she is cry... It kind of expresses me right now... JOYFUL!!) So yes I am loving work so much I am gradually getting more hours and the kids bring me so much joy. I don't understand the love that I have for them, and when I talk to my co-workers about how great I think the kids are they don't quite understand either! I have been offered a job again and H&R Block this next season full time and good pay, however I can't stand to work for an organization that is so focused on money, but I just found out that my rent is going up this next month (from dirt cheap to cheap) and also that my sister and I are actually going to be moving out before April so I am going to try to get part time at both jobs. We will see what happens I know god will provide!! I stink speaking of I am going to India!!! It is not quite official yet but God has provided money for my plane ticket in like a month therefor I have lots of Faith that this will happen!!!

Living with my sister is amazing, we aren't Bff's or anything but we are definitely getting closer and enjoying living together, like i said though it does look like we will be parting soon, but I know that these months have been crucial for our relationship!

Church is going amazing!! I am cleaning the church once a week (it is also helping with India!) and actually am really enjoying it! We got a new Pastor this week and he is really cool I am very excited to see what God is going to do through him!!

I am in a ladies bible study (leading worship actually, don't know how that happened) and I am enjoying it, it has been very difficult though as I am struggling with being disciplined.

Oh my I am just going on and on!!

So this is pretty much me, the picture above I think says it all, driving in a crazy place, but having a blast!!!

I Love you all!!!

~Sheri

News From The Rover

Hey Kaleo, its been a while again since I last posted. Much has been going on in my life, I've travelled alot of miles. On November 14th I left Canada for South Africa, didn't get there till the 16th. So many lay overs, such long flights. Needless to say I was welcomed with open arms by my mate Nick in the Jo-berg airport. The Next 6 weeks broadened my horizons in so many ways.
Four of us did a massive road trip, and had countless adventures.
Hiked to the end of the Cape of Good Hope, went on wine tastings, climbed table mountain on a clear day. A sunset sailing cruise in the evening. I jumped off the highest bungy jump in the world. Went horseback riding through indigenous forests along the garden route. Suffered 38celcious in the heart of the Karoo (desert).
Camped and went on Safari's in Kruger National Park; nearly caught Malaria on the Mozambique border. Got wet in the exotic bush of Byde River Canyon. Hawked at every corner by poor black people of all sexes and ages. Enjoyed the sun and luxury of Sun City Resort, once parcially owned by Michael Jackson.
All this was amazing, but it is stooped compared to the joy I experienced from the good company and genuine acceptance I recieved from the South Africans I spent time with. Everywhere I went, Nick and his friends and family welcomed me in as a brotehr in such a moving way. The crime and uncertainty that is South Africa causes friends and family to stand together in ways that you so rarely find in Our Western world.
As bizzare as it sounds I left the hot South African Summer just before X-mas and have been bumming around the U.K. all holidays. An old work college here, extended family there. Now I face the daunting task of finding a job and a place to call home in this Dog-eat-dog U.K. workforce. I must be patient, yet aggresive. The truth is God is going to have to guide me and open windows. Where the next step lies only he knows.
I don't miss Canada I love this sense of unknown and uncertainty; its like I'm time travelling. I spent a whole 4hours in a different Decade before even one K5 could potentially get there. You lot in BC were in a different Decade for eight hours. Wierd! Even though I don't miss the Canadian Cities and Landscapes, (except Mt. Wash) I really miss the people I love in Canada. I wish I could keep you all in my suitcase and share all my adventures with you all. Ah well, the blog will have to do.
Your Prayers are always needed
Love Kurt "The Best Is Yet To Come"