From Ashes to Beauty: Healing from the Past, Hope for the Future.
Isaiah 61:3
Exchanging hurt for hope is Sheryl’s
life focus.
Through more than twenty-five years of marriage to a
pastor, parenting two children, overcoming addictions, beating cancer
and enduring losses. Sheryl loves life in Christ and chooses to live each
day in abundant freedom and hope. Sheryl’s speaking and writing
encourages women with her practical presentations in growing toward wholeness.
Her powerful messages testify of God’s transforming power.
Sheryl is passionate about sharing how God takes the ashes of our losses, bitterness or mistakes, and turns them into something remarkably beautiful. Her own story began with her conversion to Christ over 30 years ago. Once a rebellious teen-ager, alcoholic and drug addict, Sheryl knows what it is to overcome physical addictions. Bearing the emotional scars of sexual sin, Sheryl understands the agony of abuse and how it affects marriage and other relationships.
In ministry, Sheryl has endured changes and challenges, forcing she and her husband to move on to new levels of faith, trust and dependence on God. Recently healed of stage 4 lymphoma, Sheryl knows the heartbreak of disappointment, discouragement and disease. From the depths of these experiences, her desire is for women to understand their identity in Christ, to be set free from past hurts, and to be healed and whole emotionally as they understand the truth of Isaiah 61:1-7. Sheryl’s messages sparkle with hope and healing for the times.
The joys of Sheryl’s life are her husband and two adult children. Sheryl has been a columnist, discussing ministry, parenting and life as a pastor’s wife for Focus on the Family. She has written hundreds of articles, which have appeared in varied publications, including Pastor’s Family Magazine, Discipleship Journal, Just Between Us, CCM Magazine and Walk Through the Bible. Since 1998, her radio ministry, “Kindred Moments with Sheryl Giesbrecht” has broadcast daily to thousands of listeners. Sheryl holds a bachelor of arts from Biola University, a master’s in ministry and is pursing a doctorate of divinity.