Hometown: Waxahachie; Present City: Waxahachie; Education: William Jewell College, Liberty, Missouri; Profession: Legal assistant; Tell us about your family. I am married to R.G. Huff, a retired minister of music and currently an adjunct professor at Dallas Baptist...
George Mason: Update from the Middle East
Dear friends, I am grateful to our senior pastor, Timothy Peoples, for suggesting I write something to you about the terrible ordeal in Israel and Palestine right now. To begin, words fail to express thanks for your prayers and messages to me and our group,...
Preparing for Worship
By: LeAnn Hampton. My soon-to-be 100-year-old mother loves to tell about an incident that occurred many years ago when she was teaching Sunday School to a class of third graders. She noticed that many of them arrived on Sunday morning frowning and in a bad mood. One...
I Am Wilshire: Lee Terry
Hometown: Dallas; Present City: Dallas; Education: University of Nevada, Las Vegas; bachelor’s in theater production; Profession: Stagehand; Tell us about your family. My wife, Emilee, and I live in Lake Highlands with our two kids. Michael, 6, and Lucy, 1. We live...
Preparing for Worship
By Dorrell Brown. What happens when one prepares and one forgets? I’ll tell you: the outcome changes. My sister was preparing for her bake-off and had everything all planned out. When the cookies were almost done, the sugar was still sitting on the counter, so it was...
I Am Wilshire: Ralph Manuel
Hometown: Oklahoma City. Present City: Dallas. Education: Oklahoma City University, Southwestern Baptist Seminary, B. H. Carroll Theological Seminary. Profession: Retired music minister, missionary, educator. Tell us about your family. My wife, Donna, and I have two...
Adopt a Grandfriend
If you are a family without grandparents in town and would like to adopt a grandfriend or grandfriends, click this link to request to be paired with a local Wilshire grandfriend: https://form.jotform.com/232536052281046 If you are an older adult or couple without...
Preparing for Worship
We live in a problem-solving, information-driven kind of world. Though we’re plagued by inconvenience, solutions never seem too far away. Not sure how long to air fry that frozen chicken breast? A quick Google takes care of that. Trying to decide if it’s appendicitis...
I Am Wilshire: Rebecca Cole
Hometown: Arlington; Present City: Dallas; Education: Bachelor of Fine Arts, Baylor University; MBA, The University of Chicago; Profession: Founder and creative director, SLANT Partners; Tell us about your family. I have been married to David Cole for 20 years and we...
Preparing for Worship
By: R.G. Huff. “Christ will gird himself and serve us.” This phrase from our opening hymn today brings with it a “picture this” moment of Jesus throwing on a white apron and scurrying about between tables when you’d think he should be in the place of honor — or at...