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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...