EXCHANGING HURT FOR HOPE is Sheryl's life focus. Sheryl's passion for God and His word is evident in her Bible teaching, through more than twenty-five years of marriage to a pastor, parenting two children and overcoming addictions, her paractical illustrations tap into the abundace of God's restoring love. Her triumphs include beating cancer, recovery from emotional scars of substance abuse, addictions and sexual sin, enduring losses and redeeming pain. The moment you hear Sheryl teach about release from the prisons of addictions, shame, entrapping sin and how God's love gives freedom, you will drink deeply and come up asking for more.

Trained by CLASS Speaker Services and represented by the prestigious Speak Up Speaker Services, Sheryl's messages sparkle with hope and healing for the times. A common response from those who experience Sheryl's inspiring messages, "You knew exactly how I felt and you gave me hope."

Sheryl reaches out to the world with her heart for the broken hearted. She is a speaker advocate for Compassion International, "Releasing Children from Poverty." Her desire is to encourage others to give physical, emotional and spiritual support to the over 450 million poverty-stricken children in the world, that's about one-fourth of all children, who love on less than one dollar a day. Maybe you can't change the world, but you can change the world for one child!

Working to bring hope to local high school students, Sheryl developed the Positive Options Program (POP) for truant students. Meeting regularly with confused and angry students, Sheryl tells them, "God is the best choice they can make, and if they haven't tried Him, they should!"

Sheryl is also a member of Ministry Wives Network, International