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Easter Lilies
It’s time to order lilies to beautify the Sanctuary on Easter Sunday, April 20. Congregants are invited to provide the flowers in honor or memory of family members or friends, and dedications will be listed in the worship folder. Each plant costs $20; order and pay...
Preparing for Worship: Feb. 23, 2025
By Abbey Adcox Several years ago, we went on a tubing excursion through sugar cane irrigation tunnels during a family vacation. Our guide informed us that in one of the tunnels we would experience near-total darkness, and if everyone remained still we would encounter...
I Am Wilshire: Gayle Lawson
Hometown: I was raised in Clarksville, a town of about 3,500 people in East Texas. Present City: I’ve lived in Dallas since I graduated from UT–Austin, where I majored in accounting. Profession: I worked several years for Trammell Crow Company as a controller and an...
I Am Wilshire: Katherine Stevens
Hometown: Wichita Falls Present City: Dallas Education: Baylor University Profession: Undergraduate Admissions Marketing Copywriter for Baylor University Tell us about your family. I was raised in Wichita Falls, Texas, by parents who are very involved in the church....
Preparing for Worship: Feb. 16, 2025
By Jeff Brummel Listen for the musical notes of joy, sorrow, darkness and light in today’s service. Now Thank We All Our God was penned in the midst of unimaginable tragedy. It was 1637, and much of Germany was gripped by plague and the Thirty Year’s War. In...
Preparing for Worship: Feb. 9, 2025
By Maggie Morey This morning, we are smack dab in the middle between Epiphany and Lent. We are five Sundays removed from when we celebrated Epiphany and received our star words and five Sundays away from Lent. Epiphany, the liturgical season we are in, is a time of...