Tapestry

I Am Wilshire: Carla Siegesmund

Hometown: Originally from Joshua, Texas; Present City: Dallas; Education: Baylor University, B.B.A. in Accounting; Southern Methodist University, Bachelor of Music in Piano Pedagogy; Profession: Certified Public Accountant; Tell us about your family.  I am married to...

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Memory Quilt

By: Juliana Moore.  In the summer of 1994, John Brashier was Wilshire’s new youth minister. I was involved in the singles ministry and had just started graduate school, and I think Brashier was just desperate to find people who had free time in the summer to go to...

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The Stewardship of Memory

In conjunction with our fall stewardship emphasis, Wilshire members were asked to share a favorite Wilshire memory. We’ll keep this page updated as we receive more. See the Stewardship of Memory playlist on YouTube > Read Juliana Moore’s blog post, “Memory Quilt”...

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I Am Wilshire: Allison Moore

Hometown: Dallas; Present City: Dallas; Education: BS in zoology, Texas A&M; BS and MS in nursing, UT Arlington; Profession: Nurse practitioner; Tell us about your family. I have been married to Brian for 24 years, and we have a daughter, Amory, who is a senior at...

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I Am Wilshire: Carlita Huff

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...

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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,...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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