The Minister of Music Search Committee met through the summer and is still in the process of seeking the right person. We used data from the focus groups and the congregational survey to evaluate the applications we received and wanted to share some of priorities that...
Hometown: Waxahachie; Present City: Dallas; Education: Master’s in mental health counseling; Profession: Music and Worship Coordinator; Tell us about your family. Brian and I married on 11/11/11 and have two fur-babies, Toby and Mayberry. My mom, Barbara Clayton, is a...
Kind. Nurturing. Encouraging. Mentor. These were some of the words most used by current and former Wilshire members in remembering former associate pastor Preston Bright, who died Sept. 6 at age 85. Preston served on staff from 1990 to 2005 and was named associate...
Hometown: North Little Rock, Arkansas; Present City: Woodway, Texas; Education: First life (musician): Baylor, West Texas State, Arizona State. Second life (minister): Baylor, Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond. Profession: Executive coach and consultant;...
By Vy Malcik Four couples who started a new Sunday School class at Wilshire are celebrating with the more than 70 other people who are now members of what was the first class for men and women to meet together to study the Bible and the many ways it informs our lives....
By: Charlie Fuller. In my first life I was a music professor. I conducted choirs and taught private voice lessons. There’s something unique about teaching voice that you might not know if you’ve never taught voice, taken voice lessons or sung in a choir. That unique...
Hometown: Amarillo; Present City: Dallas; Education: BA in Sociology, Oklahoma Baptist University; Master of Divinity and Doctor of Ministry from Brite Divinity School (TCU); Occupation: Minister Tell us about your family. I am married to Charles, and we have four...
By: Scott Spreier Blame it on bad Baptist upbringing, but every time I read the story of the Israelites’ exodus from Egypt, my mind goes straight to the movie The Ten Commandments. If my memory serves me, our small rural church motored en masse 20-some miles to the...
Hometown: San Antonio; Present city: Dallas; Education: University of Texas School of Law (J.D. 1980), Trinity University (B.A. Economics and Music 1977); Profession: Attorney (retired) Tell us about your family. Lydia and I have been married 39 years. We have resided...
Hometown: I was born in New Orleans, but grew up in Plano and Allen; Education: B.S. from Texas Christian University in deaf education; M.S. from Texas Woman’s University in speech-language pathology; Profession: Speech language pathologist and itinerant teacher of...