What brought you to Wilshire and when? Judy and I came in August 1975, when we moved from Shawnee, Oklahoma, for me to attend law school at SMU. We visited a lot of churches before finding out Wilshire was close to our apartment. There were some boys playing football...
Missions and Advocacy Coordinator Abbey Adcox will depart the Wilshire staff for a position at FaithWorks, a longtime Wilshire partner agency. She will fully transition to her new job by Aug. 16. Formerly known as Fellowship Southwest, FaithWorks helps churches and...
What brought you to Wilshire? My earliest memory is being in the nursery at Wilshire. My parents, Pagett Gosslee and Steve Holley, are still members today. As a young adult trying to find my own way, I visited other churches, but when I met Trey in 1999, Wilshire is...
By Ariel Merivil Our songs have the power to shape what we believe and know about God, yet I often wonder how often we think critically about what we’re singing. Today’s anthem text, “Unclouded Day” by Josiah Kelley Alwood, a circuit-rider preacher from Ohio, is like...
Candy McComb will be recognized in worship today as she retires from her role as Wilshire’s children’s choir coordinator. Since 2018, Candy has overseen Wilshire’s music activities for children and preschoolers. She led her final Listen to Your Art! camp this week...
By Timothy Peoples Have you ever read Langston Hughes’s poem “Let America Be America Again”? The opening stanzas read: Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be. Let it be the pioneer on the plain Seeking a home where he himself is free. (America...
What brought you to Wilshire and when? I grew up in East Texas. After attending the University of Texas and finishing law school, I moved to Dallas. My first visit to Wilshire resulted from the efforts of R. G. Bagwell, a classmate at First Baptist Church, Kilgore,...
By Abbey Adcox Sometimes a gesture is so subtle it slips by unnoticed. Handing someone a cup of cold water. No ceremony, no fanfare. Only water and the gentle seeing of someone’s thirst. Jesus points to this moment as the heart of the gospel. A simple act of welcome...
What brought you to Wilshire and when? I was born into the Wilshire family in 1971, and the church helped shape my earliest understanding of faith and community. My sister, Megan Wilson, and I were baptized on the same day by Bruce McIver. In 1992, Jimmy and I married...
What brought you to Wilshire and when? Lunch. I moved to Dallas in September 1959 to work for Texas Instruments after finishing graduate school at the University of Oklahoma. I joined the large Baptist church downtown. At lunch someone asked, “Why aren’t you going to...