Since the creation of this blog, I made the FIRM decision that I would refrain from posting until we all met on September 14th.
Why?
Good question!
I think I was looking forward to meeting and experiencing everyone in person; I'm not convinced that cyberspace has the capability to capture the entirety of human character. [Emoticons hardly do us justice and - for example - I might appear more intelligent through a post than I would face to face. =)]
Moreover, I wanted to skip the whole "They are not what they seemed" or "Wow, my first impression was so wrong" because I wouldn't even KNOW you guys or have heard about you in the slightest bit and vise versa. Then I noticed my major flaw. I was STILL enjoying the messages that were being posted, I just wasn't posting myself! Wow, talk about lame and confusing; I am usually the antonym of a wall flower.
In all reality, I enjoy people and I LOVE community with both God and man.
So now - with both boldness and slight humility - I am posting, trusting that (even if it is easy to pre-determine what I will be like before we meet) you will get to know the "real me" and I will get to know and love the "real you" very soon.
Until then, I am Nicole Pauls and I live on the precious prairies of Manitoba. I live for Jesus and I will fight you for bacon and/or chocolate mints.
Not too soon, Baboon!
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Hey Kaleo 2012!
What to say about myself? Well, I'm Lindsey. I'm currently living in Vancouver, and working as a Summer Intern at Inner Hope Youth Ministries. Like many of you, my whole life has been camp during the summer, so one of my biggest challenges has been finding my place away from camp this year. Although it has been tough being away from that community, it has stretched me so much, and I value it so much more having been away. I hope to return to do Core Staff next summer! Tanner - chances are I will meet you very soon, since you're at my camp, and i'll be by to visit next week sometime. I'm jealous that you get to hang out with my friends every day, but i'm super stoked to have another SABC staff in the Kaléo program.
I've been away from "home" for a year and a half now, studying at Trinity Western University. I'm majoring in Psychology/Human Services, and minoring in Studio Art. Although I loved my time at Trinity so far, in the spring I started feeling called to leave. I started researching YWAM's and completed applications for two of them. It never felt completely right though, so I never actually mailed them in. It's incredible how God works, because for someone who rarely does things last minute, it was a huge step of faith to wait on where God wanted me this fall. And here I am, 6 weeks before September, and I'm confident that this is where I am supposed to be! I'm thirsting to know more of God, and to be challenged in ways that I don't expect.
You may have noticed by now that I can be pretty long winded, considering it's taken me three paragraphs to get to where I'm actually from. Home for me is Lethbridge, right smack in the middle of Southern Alberta. My parents and sister still live there, so I get to go home next week and see them and relax a bit! Anyway though, if you have any questions/comments, I'll respond. Let me catch you up on a few fun facts about me, and then this is enough for one post!
Fun Facts:
1. I also love thrift stores and antique/consignment stores
2. I play violin, and I can play about 6 chords on guitar, and right hand piano. I would love to learn to actually play left hand on piano as well... so perhaps we'll have to have a musical lesson swap, since no one really wants to just hear the melody of a song all the time.
3. I drive a beetle, and they are the worst cars ever if you have to cart children/carseats around. I do love my car though. Driving is also one of my favourite things, especially at night in the country.
4. I would love to visit every continent.
5. I really don't enjoy cats.
6. I dyed a piece of my hair purple. Mistake one: I let a 15 year old do it. Mistake two: It was cheap dye, and now i have green hair.
7. I love acoustic music.
8. It's driving me crazy that I can't think of 10 and it bothers me that I have to leave this on such an unruly number. (not a multiple of 5)
I can't wait to meet you all. God Bless,
Lindsey Grisnich
What to say about myself? Well, I'm Lindsey. I'm currently living in Vancouver, and working as a Summer Intern at Inner Hope Youth Ministries. Like many of you, my whole life has been camp during the summer, so one of my biggest challenges has been finding my place away from camp this year. Although it has been tough being away from that community, it has stretched me so much, and I value it so much more having been away. I hope to return to do Core Staff next summer! Tanner - chances are I will meet you very soon, since you're at my camp, and i'll be by to visit next week sometime. I'm jealous that you get to hang out with my friends every day, but i'm super stoked to have another SABC staff in the Kaléo program.
I've been away from "home" for a year and a half now, studying at Trinity Western University. I'm majoring in Psychology/Human Services, and minoring in Studio Art. Although I loved my time at Trinity so far, in the spring I started feeling called to leave. I started researching YWAM's and completed applications for two of them. It never felt completely right though, so I never actually mailed them in. It's incredible how God works, because for someone who rarely does things last minute, it was a huge step of faith to wait on where God wanted me this fall. And here I am, 6 weeks before September, and I'm confident that this is where I am supposed to be! I'm thirsting to know more of God, and to be challenged in ways that I don't expect.
You may have noticed by now that I can be pretty long winded, considering it's taken me three paragraphs to get to where I'm actually from. Home for me is Lethbridge, right smack in the middle of Southern Alberta. My parents and sister still live there, so I get to go home next week and see them and relax a bit! Anyway though, if you have any questions/comments, I'll respond. Let me catch you up on a few fun facts about me, and then this is enough for one post!
Fun Facts:
1. I also love thrift stores and antique/consignment stores
2. I play violin, and I can play about 6 chords on guitar, and right hand piano. I would love to learn to actually play left hand on piano as well... so perhaps we'll have to have a musical lesson swap, since no one really wants to just hear the melody of a song all the time.
3. I drive a beetle, and they are the worst cars ever if you have to cart children/carseats around. I do love my car though. Driving is also one of my favourite things, especially at night in the country.
4. I would love to visit every continent.
5. I really don't enjoy cats.
6. I dyed a piece of my hair purple. Mistake one: I let a 15 year old do it. Mistake two: It was cheap dye, and now i have green hair.
7. I love acoustic music.
8. It's driving me crazy that I can't think of 10 and it bothers me that I have to leave this on such an unruly number. (not a multiple of 5)
I can't wait to meet you all. God Bless,
Lindsey Grisnich
Sunday, July 17, 2011
Hey All!
Hope you all are having a fantastic summer! I just want to ask for some prayer right now, for a person in my life who could use is more than me. She is a definite role model to me and it's been hard for me to offer any sort of solace for her in this time, and so I've just continued to pray and hope. She is a mother of two amazing children (kindergarten and grade 1 age) whom I love and cherish and can only find part time jobs in order to provide for them. Her husband died one year ago yesterday and so this year has been full of "firsts" without him, so the grief is still new. Not only that, but their house got broken into as well yesterday and so she's struggling with trying to stay composed for her children, knowing full well the damage that has been done. The reason why she is so amazing to me is that she takes the situations that she has been in and turns them around to bless those around her. She suffers to bless. So I'm just asking that you think of her while you pray and put her before the throne of God.
Thanks so much guys, I really appreciate it. And I'll keep you updated.
-Marissa
Hope you all are having a fantastic summer! I just want to ask for some prayer right now, for a person in my life who could use is more than me. She is a definite role model to me and it's been hard for me to offer any sort of solace for her in this time, and so I've just continued to pray and hope. She is a mother of two amazing children (kindergarten and grade 1 age) whom I love and cherish and can only find part time jobs in order to provide for them. Her husband died one year ago yesterday and so this year has been full of "firsts" without him, so the grief is still new. Not only that, but their house got broken into as well yesterday and so she's struggling with trying to stay composed for her children, knowing full well the damage that has been done. The reason why she is so amazing to me is that she takes the situations that she has been in and turns them around to bless those around her. She suffers to bless. So I'm just asking that you think of her while you pray and put her before the throne of God.
Thanks so much guys, I really appreciate it. And I'll keep you updated.
-Marissa
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Finally I'm home
So I just got back from a 2 week mission trip to Puerto Rico early this morning. The original plan was to help out with the construction of a Sunday school building for a church out there and a little maintenance at the Evangelical School for the Deaf where we were staying. Unfortunately, we weren't able to get much done on the church because of holidays, weather and an uncooperative contractor. However, we did get to do a lot of work done at the deaf school including painting, yard work and some fix-it tasks. For as little as I feel we did, the local people from the church and school showered us with love and acceptance, feeding us FANTASTIC food and giving us a place to sleep. Throughout the trip we constantly felt the love of God through these people and learned so much about hospitality and what it means to be a servant. God also taught us about patience and trusting in him; we may not have gotten done as much as we would have liked, but it's all in His hands and He knew what He was doing sending rain. Furthermore, we got to witness God's protection in a number of "close calls". All in all it was an amazing, wonderful, stupendous, thrilling trip and I'm thankful that I got the chance to go. If you could pray that I will continue the relationship with God that I developed while I was there and continue to push forward and put into practise what He is teaching me. If you have any questions about the trip or anything, chat me up, I would love to talk more about how God moved. :)
Monday, July 11, 2011
I finally got on here!
So apparently I am blogger challenged. I could not figure out how to make a new post or to even get to the blog. It was great, like an adventure.
I am from Vancouver. I live at "The House" or Inner Hope Ministries. Right now there are the two ladies that run it, me, dez, her 2 boys and someone who is staying for a bit. (you could look up their web site or just ask me about it later)
Currently I am working at Camp Qwanoes for july, then going to Mexico for a missions trip and then coming back to camp as a camper for my last year and then as a STUDENT!
I am nervous and excited about this coming year. I know it will be great and difficult at the same time. I have run out of things to say about myself, so if you want to know just ask me. I will answer you eventually ( if i could get back on to this thing, that is)
-Toni
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