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Current News
This page is usually updated Fridays. Top Stories• Visioning Team launches web page >• J’Von Brown is new children’s choir coordinator >• New pastoral residents James and Bryce are here >• Former resident named Pathways director >• Gifted piano finds home...
Preparing For Worship: Aug. 30, 2026
By Katie Murray “Did your pastor push you under the water when you were a little kid?” If you haven’t had a kindergartner sit next to you in church in a while, you may have forgotten the types of questions that are likely to come your way every few minutes from our...
Wilshire Visioning Process
Wilshire, who are we? What is God calling us to do in this time and place? How can our capabilities and resources be faithfully stewarded toward that end? Wilshire’s Visioning Team was selected from the congregation in February 2026 and has been prayerfully working to...
Visioning Team Update
Over the past few months, Wilshire’s Visioning Team has been prayerfully and thoughtfully working on how to answer one of the first questions in this process: who are we as a church? Our congregation is continually evolving, and rather than assuming we know everything...
I Am Wilshire 75th Anniversary Special: Peggy Tinsley
What brought you to Wilshire and when? In 1972, we had just moved to Dallas with baby Steve for Sam to take his first full-time job. We erroneously assumed we could go to whatever Baptist church was nearest our apartment. When that clearly wasn’t working out, Mike and...