Leticia Vega, Facilities Staff, 20 years Leticia Vega marked her 20-year work anniversary at Wilshire on Jan. 7. As part of the facilities staff, she is responsible for maintaining the cleanliness of the Wilshire building. While her responsibilities haven’t changed...
It’s time to order Easter lilies to adorn the Sanctuary on Easter Sunday. Congregants are invited to provide the flowers in honor or in memory of beloved family members, friends or teachers. Dedications will be listed in the worship folder on Easter, March 31. Each...
By R.G. Huff. It’s Super Bowl Sunday. It’s the last Sunday before Ariel, our new minister of music, starts. Timothy is back from preaching at St. Bart’s Cathedral in New York, and it’s Transfiguration Sunday in the lectionary. I have to admit: I understand the first...
Hometown: Abilene, Texas; Present city: Dallas; Education: Hardin Simmons University, B.S., Education; Southern Methodist University, M.L.A. Tell us about your family. I have two younger sisters and one brother, two grown children, Robert and Claire, and three...
Wilshire’s Faith in 3D initiative will present The Christians, a dramatic play by Lucas Hnath, on Thursday, Feb. 15, at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, Feb. 17, at 2:30 p.m. in the Sanctuary. Nancy Poynter is directing the cast of five Wilshire actors, and the show includes a...
Hometown: Jetmore, Kansas; Present City: Dallas; Education: University of Kansas; Profession: Consultant and writer; Tell us about your family. Jeanne and I have been married 38 years. Our three wonderful kids (Mary Lu, who works for the American Heart Association and...
By: Charlie Fuller. My dear, wonderful, and new-to-me Wilshire family: It all began with a phone call. Your gifted, loving and simply wonderful pastor, Timothy, asked if I’d be willing to come to Dallas and talk about helping with a music interim. I’m so glad I said,...
By Yusuph Emmanuel The outlook is bleak for far too many people in the remote villages of Tanzania. There is no hope for a different life, let alone a better life, and dreaming about the future seems foolish when every day is a fight for survival. The severe drought...
Hometown: Dallas (but I went to high school in Amarillo); Present City: Dallas; Education: BA in Speech Communications from Baylor University; Profession: Mom, volunteer, dipping my toe back into teaching; Tell us about your family. Kile and I have been married for 31...
Wilshire conducted church business and heard a State of the Church Address from Senior Pastor Timothy Peoples at its Annual Church Conference on Jan. 21. The church approved revisions to Wilshire’s bylaws and approved a 2024 Unified Budget of $3,925,000. Timothy spoke...