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News & Updates
Watch this space for the latest Wilshire news, including items from our newsletter, the Tapestry. Check the Events section for information on upcoming events. You can subscribe to our two weekly emails; Tapestry News, sent Fridays, includes news and a worship preview, while the Monday Recap has links to videos and blog posts from the prior week.
I Am Wilshire: Dorothy Burrus
Hometown: Tulsa; Present City: Dallas; Education: Doctorate in education, Oklahoma State University; Tell us about your family. My husband, Hershel, and I met in college at OSU. We got married in 1941, and he left shortly after to serve in the Army during World War...
Graduate Recognition 2024
Preparing for Worship
By Scott Spreier. Breathe in ... breathe out .... If you’ve come to worship this morning under a dark cloud, you’re not alone. ’Tis the season of scapegoating; a season in which we twist Christ’s assertion that it’s “more blessed to give ...” and anoint evil and blame...
I Am Wilshire: Gina Waterman
Hometown: Lake Hopatcong, New Jersey; Present City: Garland; Education: B.S. Technical Communication, Rochester Institute of Technology; Profession: Grief recovery specialist/coach; Tell us about your family. I am mom to Kenneth, 19. He attends the Notre Dame School,...
Inclusion & Diversity Study Group
In 2015, Wilshire’s deacons appointed a study group to address questions about LGBTQ inclusion in the church. Known as the Inclusion and Diversity Study Group (IDSG), these individuals worked deliberately and methodically for 18 months before making a recommendation...
Preparing for Worship
What has been before will continue to be, and what has been done before will continue to be done — there’s nothing new under the sun! —Ecclesiastes 1:9 Sometimes we feel just like the writer of Ecclesiastes. We get stuck in our daily routine. Everything seems...