By: Charlie Fuller. My dear, wonderful, and new-to-me Wilshire family: It all began with a phone call. Your gifted, loving and simply wonderful pastor, Timothy, asked if I’d be willing to come to Dallas and talk about helping with a music interim. I’m so glad I said,...
By Yusuph Emmanuel The outlook is bleak for far too many people in the remote villages of Tanzania. There is no hope for a different life, let alone a better life, and dreaming about the future seems foolish when every day is a fight for survival. The severe drought...
Wilshire conducted church business and heard a State of the Church Address from Senior Pastor Timothy Peoples at its Annual Church Conference on Jan. 21. The church approved revisions to Wilshire’s bylaws and approved a 2024 Unified Budget of $3,925,000. Timothy spoke...
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...
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...
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...
The Texas Legislature’s special session has sparked controversy as it attempts to channel public school funds into private school subsidies, known by names like “vouchers” or “educational savings accounts.” Faith leaders have urged lawmakers to reject any such...
The Minister of Music Search Committee met through the summer and is still in the process of seeking the right person. We used data from the focus groups and the congregational survey to evaluate the applications we received and wanted to share some of priorities that...
Kind. Nurturing. Encouraging. Mentor. These were some of the words most used by current and former Wilshire members in remembering former associate pastor Preston Bright, who died Sept. 6 at age 85. Preston served on staff from 1990 to 2005 and was named associate...
By Vy Malcik Four couples who started a new Sunday School class at Wilshire are celebrating with the more than 70 other people who are now members of what was the first class for men and women to meet together to study the Bible and the many ways it informs our lives....