Lubbock Christian University

We had a great weekend at LCU's 50th year Celebration and our 11 year college reunion. Although there weren't as many friends of ours there as we had hoped for, we did get to see many of them and catch up with old acquaintances. It's neat to hear what everyone is doing now, and to see people all grown up and "middle aged with 3 kids". It's amazing how things have changed and improved at LCU in the 11 years since we've been there. Dr. Ken Jones has done an fabulous job of improving the image of LCU, which we always thought was one of it's weak points. The campus is really pretty with nice landscaping and the fairly new Bronze Chaparral statue, which we think is really cool, and some other people in our family think is hideous! There is a new building on campus between the CDC and the Education Building, and the Moody has been recently renovated. It's a pretty campus to walk around now!

We are very thankful for LCU and what we learned there. We learned academics, which prepared us for our careers, but it was also a great place to learn how to be an adult after leaving home. I still have so much love and admiration for many of my professors, many of who we still are in contact with. One professor and her husband faithfully supported us financially each month when we went to Africa. I am very thankful to my parents who paid for my education - only in recent years have I realized what a HUGE blessing that was to me. Thank you Mom & Dad for your sacrifices to send me to LCU. We hope that one day, we will be able to give gifts to the University to help keep it going. We hear that my grandparents, James & Taleta Mabry were at one of the first meetings to discuss the possibility of a Christian Univeristy in a cotton field in Lubbock. We are so glad for what God did with that dream - if not for it, things would have turned out very differently. (I don't think Gabe or I would exists, as both sets of our parents met there!) Go Chaps!