By Juliana Moore We are in the middle of summer, aren’t we? The heat has arrived, and some of us are scattered hither and yon, as my grandmother would say. I find that these “lazy days of summer” are anything but lazy. My past month has been filled with travel and...
Hometown: Walters, Oklahoma Present City: Garland Education: B.A., Oklahoma Baptist University; M.S.W., Washington University, St. Louis Profession: Longtime social worker, working mostly in private practice and hospice work. Tell us about your family. My family...
Yusuph Emmanuel, founder and CEO of Twelve21 Global, provided this update about work supported by Wilshire in Tanzania. This photo captures 230 parents and pastors of our students on Kome Island who were provided a five-day training on Community Transformation (CT)....
Hometown: Beaumont. I grew up in West Texas, in and around Odessa. Present City: Mesquite Education: A.D. Nursing, Odessa College; B.S.N. Dallas Baptist University; Hands On Therapy massage school Profession: Practicing massage therapist and retired R.N. Tell us about...
By R.G. Huff I have to admit that I did not choose to write this preparation for worship based on the Gospel reading from which Timothy is preaching today. While the Richard Strauss ballet Salome is based on it, the beheading of Jesus’ cousin is not one of those...
Hometown: Plano Present City: Plano Education: Plano High School; B.S., Baylor University; Ph.D., chemistry, U.T.–Austin Profession: Research chemist Tell us about your family. I am an only child and never married. How about your work or volunteer life? I’ve done...
By Abbey Adcox Each year on the Youth Choir mission tour, we are asked to experience the week through a specific lens. This year, Darren asked us to consider how we might learn, love and be courageous throughout the week. In our evening gatherings he read the...
Hometown: Wichita Falls Present City: Wichita Falls Education: Brite Divinity School, MDiv, with a concentration in pastoral and community care Profession: VA Liaison for Visiting Angels of Wichita Falls Tell us about your work or volunteer life. I am an MDiv student...
By Ava McClung As I enter adulthood, I find myself constantly unmaking and remaking my image of who I am and how I fit into the world. I’m living away from home for the first time. I’m meeting people with wildly different backgrounds from my own and opening my mind to...
Hometown: Ypsilanti, Jackson and Lansing, Michigan Present City: Dallas Education: Waverly High School in Lansing Profession: Window cleaning Tell us about your family. My kids are my pride and joy. My oldest, Samantha, is a doctor of physical therapy and lives in...