Dear Friends and Family,
I know that most of you cannot go visit Mary Curry, but YOU can remember her in your prayers. Mary's family placed her in a nursing home yesterday and it is really hard on all of them. I am including a note from Cindy that I just received!!! Just breaks my heart to think of her like this. In January during one of our Lubbock snow storms some neighbors found Mary wandering the streets in her night clothes and she didn't know where she was. She has gone down hill very rapidly with this horrible disease of Alzeiheimers. Please keep Cindy and Rod in your prayers also.

I am going to include an address for Heritage Oaks just in case some of you would like to send Mary a card. Better yet.... I am going to challenge each one of you to send Mary a card!! I sure that would help her immensely....how horrible to think that family and friends are going to forget you. Mary was such an intricate part of Sunset School of Preaching and SIBI for so long. Please forward this to others and lets flood her "new home" with cards from all over the country.

ATTN: Mary Curry
Heritage Oaks Nursing Home
5301 University, Room 307
Lubbock, TX 79413

MAY 2009 . . . . Sunset International Translation Center

Can you believe that summer is almost here and this school year is almost over? Sunset International Bible Institute's Graduation ceremonies will be May 23rd. Some of our Branch Schools have already had their celebrations and others are coming up in June. 

It has been almost a year since I sent out a Sunset International TRANSLATION CENTER (SITC) report. This has been an amazing year with progress in every area of the SIBI network. For that reason I have decided to send individual language reports to be able key in on our different translations. Please know that we continue to work in the fields of English, Arabic, Khymer, Russian, Portugese, and Spanish even if you do not receive a progress report for one of those  languages. Please contact me at the addresses/numbers below if you would like more information about any or all of these languages. 

The picture is worth a THOUSAND WORDS!

TEXAS TECH RED RAIDERS....  39!!

Texas Longhorns.... 33

Yesterday was a hard day for me. It was also a very convicting day...a day when I took the time to look at my own life and evaluate myself as a sister, a wife, a mother, and grandmother. I looked at myself and saw so many areas where I could be better. My examination began when I attended the funeral for a woman I have grown to love and appreciate over the past 15 years during our time at Sunset. The "Morris Mob" came to Sunset when it was still Sunset School of Preaching in 1993. Very early on we made it a point to meet Elaine and Richard Walker because during our time as an Air Force family we met the Walker's oldest daughter, Sheryl, and her family in Germany. We worshiped with the Kaiserslautern Church of Christ from June 1985 to June 1988. At that time Tom and Sheryl were working with the Bitburg Church of Christ, where Tom was the preacher. Germany was a uniquely, different and wonderfully family oriented world for the Church. Church Family became "closer than a brother"  type family. Because most of the congregations were so small, sister congregations all over Germany did alot of things together for encouragement and fellowship.

Knowing the SHEPHERD

Most of you already know that I "LOVE" my job with the Sunset International Translation Center. I work with some amazing people, many of whom I have never met, because we communicate through email rather than face to face interactions. I coordinate our Sunset Translation work with Christian translators and editors who live all over the world. Many of these people are fairly new converts who live and work in areas of the world vastly different from my safe little community of Lubbock, Texas. Their love for the Lost and their devotion to God’s Word is a daily inspiration to me. These people truly sacrifice beyond their means just to be involved in the work they do.

Translation is just a "piece" of my job here at Sunset. I am also privileged to be able to edit our Sunset Bible Study Library series which consists of a book-style format of the spoken word from our Sunset Residential classes. Sunset is blessed to have an amazing faculty who also sacrifices to be personally involved in training whole men and women to preach the whole Gospel to the whole world wholly to please God.

May 2008

When was the last time I sent out a Translation Center Progress Report and told EVERYONE how much I love the job that God has prepared for me? It has been too long.

My favorite scripture passage is Acts 17:24-27. Partially quoting it, Paul said: "The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth . . . and he determined the times set for MAN and the exact places where he should live."