A Message From the Search Committee Dear Wilshire, your deep love for the worship and music legacy at our church has been such an encouragement. Over the past eight months, our committee’s priorities have been to gather feedback from all, to reflect with you on the...
For most of this year, the Pathways to Ministry Committee, in consultation with Senior Pastor Timothy Peoples and Pathways Director George Mason, has been evaluating Wilshire’s pastoral residency program with a view toward how best to shape its work in forming young...
Hometown: Tyler Present City: Plano Education: BS Electrical Engineering and MSEE from UT-Austin Profession: Engineer Tell us about your family. Laura and I were married for 49 years in June. Our daughter, Amanda, is married to Mike Dorn, and they live in Dallas. They...
By Ralph Manuel. "Now thank we all our God with heart and hands and voices … and keep us in his grace, and guide us when perplexed …" —“Now Thank We All Our God” What must it be like to live in a world where war and conflict are all around us? At times we feel as if...
Hometown: Kenedy, Texas; Present City: Dallas; Education: BS, Baylor; MRE, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary; PhD, Texas A&M; Occupation: Minister and university administration/faculty; Tell us about your family. I married Gene Rice in 1976 while he was...
For this morning’s prelude, the Wilshire Winds plays an excerpt from “The Promise of Living,” a piece American composer Aaron Copland wrote for his opera, The Tender Land. The opera tells the story of a Midwest farm family in the 1930s during the spring harvest. The...
After listening to our congregation, praying, reading applications, studying responses to questions we posed to applicants and visiting with candidates, the Minister of Music Search Committee is excited to share that we have a unanimous recommendation for an...
Hometown: Humble, Texas; Present City: Dallas; Education: BA in psychology and BM in music therapy from SMU. MS in counseling psychology from UT Southwestern; Profession: Retired U.S. probation officer, now a federal sentencing consultant; Tell us about your family. I...
By Sarah Stafford I felt God’s call on my life as a high school student. I didn’t know what it looked like, but I knew I had been called. The only female mentor I had was in my home church; she, of course, was not called a minister, although she was a minister to me...
Hometown: Pigeon Forge, Tennessee; Present City: Waxahachie; Education: Bachelor’s in biblical studies, Carson Newman University; master’s in church music/worship, Southwestern Seminary; Profession: Retired from 48 years in local church music ministry; currently...