Geri McKenzie is leaving her role as Wilshire’s executive director of administration to pursue other opportunities. Her departure will be effective Aug. 31. Geri joined the staff in June 2005 and worked for 18 years in Wilshire’s Pathways to Ministry program, first as...
By Abbey Adcox This past week, our Youth Choir traveled to Chicago to serve, learn, sing and be present. What we didn’t fully expect was how deeply we would be met. We met Dilla, a self-proclaimed B-list Chicago celebrity, YouTube-famous and brutally honest. He asked...
By Mike Capps The Swedish theologian Krister Stendahl suggests that we should leave room in our religious understanding for “Holy Envy” in how we understand and engage with religious traditions different from our own. By this he means that it is proper to feel a sense...
Hometown: My dad was in the service, and we moved around until he retired. We settled in Arlington, where I graduated high school. Present City: Plano Profession: Administrative assistant Tell us about your family. I met David Burton at my home church in Arlington in...
Compared to the last four years, Wilshire’s income-to-expenses deficit is larger than it has been at the same point in the year, Senior Pastor Timothy Peoples reported in an email to the church on May 22. While the staff has managed to keep spending below...
Wilshire facilities staffer Daniel Latin recently marked his 20-year anniversary of working at the church. He will be recognized at the end of worship on Sunday, June 8. “I love what I do and the people in the church,” Daniel said. “I love the atmosphere, the sense of...
Hometown: Terrell; grew up in Oak Cliff Present City: Dallas Education: B.A., North Texas; M.A. and Ph.D., New Mexico State Profession: Educator, writer Tell us about your family. I have none left. I’m an only child, married an only child, and we had no children. We...
By Jeff Hampton Today is Pentecost Sunday, when we recall how the people of God first received the indwelling of the Holy Spirit as promised by Jesus. My first awakening to what Pentecost was about was through the giant painting, “The Miracle at Pentecost,” at what is...
By Maggie Morey The first piece of Wilshire worship I ever watched was mid-pandemic. In June 2020, for an online service, a few folks played “Crowded Table” by The Highwomen. The clip got shared and shared again until it ended up on my Facebook feed. They sang of an...
Wilshire’s Early Childhood Learning Center held a program on Thursday, May 15, to celebrate the end of the school year. The event took on added significance as it also marked the closure of ECLC after decades of operation. The church announced last fall that ECLC...