Curtis Gay, author of One More Sunrise-Memoir of a Combat Infantryman, is a Stephen Minister and Certified Lay Minister. Since retiring after a long career in the electrical industry, he was called to minister to veterans in transition from homelessness and other people in recovery. In 2012 he was appointed as pastor of a reconciling church, Sanctuary UMC, in Durham North Carolina, where he served until they grew enough to afford an ordained pastor.