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Susan H. Peterson
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Short Name: Susan H. Peterson
Full Name: Peterson, Susan H., 1950-2004
Birth Year: 1950
Death Year: 2004

Born: Oc­to­ber 17, 1950, Port An­ge­les, Wash­ing­ton.
Died: Ju­ly 23, 2004, Per­al­ta, New Mex­i­co.

Susan was the se­cond of two girls in the fam­i­ly. Her fa­ther worked for the Na­tion­al Park Ser­vice, so Su­san en­joyed grow­ing up in Na­tion­al Parks and His­tor­ic Sites across Amer­i­ca.
She did her un­der­grad­u­ate work at Stan­ford Un­i­ver­si­ty and earned a BS in ma­the­ma­tics in 1972. The next year she took a one-year grad­u­ate pro­gram at Mult­no­mah School of the Bi­ble in Port­land, Or­e­gon, and re­ceived a Cer­tif­i­cate of Bi­ble up­on com­ple­tion.
She de­cid­ed not to pur­sue a ca­reer in com­put­er sci­ence, as she had orig­in­al­ly in­tend­ed, in­stead em­bark­ing on a ser­ies of jobs in which she honed her of­fice skills and gained some mis­sions ex­per­i­ence. She spent 1976 in Tan­za­nia un­der the Af­ri­ca In­land Mis­sion. Up­on her re­turn, she set­tled in Port­land, Or­e­gon, where she learned word pro­cess­ing and did ed­it­ing and proof­read­ing.
In 1990, Su­san de­cid­ed to go back to school to learn how to work with vi­su­al­ly im­paired and blind adults. She re­ceived her MA in re­hab­il­i­ta­tion teach­ing of the blind from the Un­i­ver­si­ty of Ar­kan­sas at Lit­tle Rock in 1991. She then moved to Fort Col­lins, Col­o­ra­do, where she worked as an ed­it­or and desk­top pub­lish­ing tech­ni­cian for 10 years and did vol­un­teer re­habilita­tion teach­ing in her spare time. Much of Susan’s ed­it­ing and desk­top pub­lish­ing work was on books pro­duced by the Mis­sions Com­miss­ion of World Evan­gel­ic­al Al­li­ance, in­clud­ing Work­ing Your Way to the Na­tions, Too Val­u­a­ble to Lose, Send Me!, Glob­al Mis­si­ol­o­gy for the 21st Cen­tu­ry, and Doing Mem­ber Care Well. She al­so worked part time for Emer­gen­cy World, a com­pa­ny that pro­duc­ed train­ing ma­ter­ia­ls for emer­gen­cy re­sponse per­son­nel. Susan moved back to Or­e­gon in 2002, where she continued the same work she did in Col­o­ra­do.

For sev­er­al years, Susan worked with Wyc­liffe As­so­ci­ates as part of a team that helped key­board Bi­bles and New Tes­ta­ments that were print­ed be­fore the age of com­put­ers and that need­ed to be put in­to elec­tron­ic for­mat, so that they could be up­dat­ed or adapt­ed for other lan­guage­s.
Susan’s ca­reer as a hymn writ­er be­gan in 1997, when she set a goal of writ­ing 100 hymns. Her me­thod was to sel­ect a pass­age of Scrip­ture for each song and then find a hymn tune that seemed to fit the pass­age. She thus com­bined the en­dur­ing Word of God with mel­o­dies that have stood the test of time. Her songs were a bless­ing to her, and she was pleased to be able to share them with others.

Lyrics:
Alpha, Omega
Ascribe to the Lord Our God
Be Now Im­i­tat­ors of Your Lord
Be Strong in God
Behold, These Words Are Trust­worthy and True
Blest Are the Poor
Blest Is the Man
Christ a Blind Man Saw One Day
Clothe Your­self with Hu­mil­i­ty
Come and Hear the Words of Je­sus
Come un­to Me
Count It Joy
Cursed Is the One Who Trusts in Man
Do Not Be Sur­prised
Do Not Wor­ry
Earth Be­longs to the Lord, The
Everyone Should Be Quick to List­en
Faith Means We’re Sure
Faith of Our Bro­thers
For un­to Us a Child Is Born
Give Thanks to God the Lord
God, Keep Me Safe
God Most High, We Praise You
God, the Bless­ed and On­ly Rul­er
God the Lord Does Ask
Hallelujah, Praise the Lord!
He Has Giv­en Us His Prom­is­es
Hear Now My Praise, O Lord
Holy, Ho­ly, Lord God Al­mighty
How Can I, Lord, Keep My Way Pure?
How Good It Is, Lord
How Great the Love
How Ma­ny Are Your Works, Lord
I Am the Lord, Your God
I Am the Vine
I Extol You, O Lord
I Kneel Be­fore You, Lord
I Praise You, Lord
If Any Per­son Is in Christ
If You Love Me
If You Would Come Af­ter Me
In You, O Lord, I Put My Trust
It Is Good to Praise th’Al­mighty
Jesus, the Good Shep­herd
Jonah
Just Trust in Me
Kingdom of Your Hea­ven­ly Fa­ther, The
Let Not Your Hearts Be Trou­bled
Let Your Mind­set Be the Same
Live with Each Other in Love
Lord, I Ex­tol Your Name
Lord, We Come and Of­fer Praise
Lord, You Have Been Our Dwell­ing
Lord, You Have Searched Me
Lord, You’ve Called Us as Your Ser­vants
Love Must Be Sin­cere and Hon­est
Lovely, O Lord, Is Your Dwell­ing Place
Majestic Is Your Name
Man Named Ni­co­dem­us, A
My God, in Whom I Trust
My Light and My Sal­va­tion
My Soul Finds Rest in God Alone
Now Let Us Love Each Other
Now That You’ve Tast­ed
O Come, Let Us Sing
O God, You Are My God
O Lord, Life Is Sac­red
O Lord, You Reign o’er Earth and Sea
O Lord, You’re My Shep­herd
O May All the Peo­ples Praise You
O Shout for Joy
Oh, How Ma­jes­tic and Glor­i­ous
Oh, the Depth of God’s Wis­dom
One Day There’ll Be New Earth and Hea­ven
One Named Laz­a­rus
Praise Be un­to Our God Ephe­sians
Praise Him, Praise Him, Praise Him
Praise, O Serv­ants of the Lord
Praise the Lord, My Soul
Put Off Your Old Self Whol­ly
Rejoice in God
Savior, Like a Shep­herd
Since Through God’s Mer­cy
Since We Are Now Sur­rounde­d
Since We Have Con­fi­dence
Sing to the Lord
Sing with Joy
This God’s Our God
Though I Speak
To Whom Will You Com­pare God?
Trust in the Lord with All Your Heart
Unto You I Lift My Soul Up
Up to the Hills I Look
We Now Have Peace with God
We Thank You, Lord
Wedding Took Place, A
Well Done, Good and Faith­ful Ser­vant
What Good Can Come?
What Shall We Say?
Where Can One Look for

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