What brought you to Wilshire and when? An SMU scholarship for Charles brought us to Dallas in 1975. After visiting two other churches, we found Wilshire and visited. When singing the invitation hymn, we looked at each other and said, this is home. Who was pastor when...
What brought you to Wilshire and when? In 1961, my parents were married at Wilshire in a ceremony officiated by Bruce McIver. When I was born in December 1965, I became an instantaneous member of the cradle roll department led by Nina Knox. What ministries or staff...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
Wilshire was born on June 14, 1951, when a group of dedicated Baptists gathered in a Lakewood home to organize a new church. We are grateful for the vision of those founders, for the generations who have sustained it over the past 75 years, and for those who will...
What Wilshire has given to me ... A high school group that made me feel welcome. Some are still close friends today. I joined Wilshire in October 1960 with my parents, Charlie and LuFan Watson, and sisters, Evelyn and Mitzi. I was in the ninth grade. In the summer of...
By Heather Mustain Today marks 75 years of Wilshire’s faithful witness and presence to our community, our neighborhood and our world. We have spent the last few months remembering and reflecting on memories and milestones, ministry and mission, and although our...