Hometown: Fort Worth
Present City: Dallas
Education: BA, Oklahoma Baptist University; Master of Education, University of North Texas
Profession: Minister to Preschoolers
Tell us about your family.
My husband, Allan, is a photographer. Brian, 27, works at a bike shop and is an avid rock climber and chess teacher; Emily, 25, is a nanny. Both of our kids live at home.
How about your work life?
I get to hold babies, welcome children, read stories and play. What more could you want?!
Any favorite hobbies?
Sewing, quilting, smocking.
What are your favorite places to travel?
London, Chicago, Santa Fe.
What brought you to Wilshire and when?
I came in 1990 as a single adult, got married in 1997 and brought Allan here from Broadway Baptist in Fort Worth. We raised our children at Wilshire. When I retired in 2016 from teaching kindergarten in public schools, I taught pre-K at ECLC. Then Covid came, and we shut down. When we reopened, I became the assistant director. In 2024, I was asked to be Wilshire’s minister to preschoolers.
Tell us about your faith journey.
I was raised in the church. Grandfather King was a Baptist preacher in Oklahoma. My Daddy, Joe King, was the minister of music at University Baptist Church in Fort Worth for 16 years, so I grew up as a staff kid. When Daddy finished his doctorate, he started teaching conducting and church music at Southwestern Seminary. My mother, Sue King, taught voice at the seminary. I was always at church and very involved in music. I came to faith early. UBC, OBU and my family nurtured that faith. Daddy was the interim minister of music at Wilshire twice, between Bill James and Bob Brooks, and again between Bob and Doug Haney. Wilshire has helped nurture my faith and the faith of my children and husband, and for that I am forever grateful.
What do you think God is up to in your life right now?
I feel like all my experience and education has brought me to this perfect job. I love interacting with the preschoolers and their families and introducing them to their own faith journey through Godly Play.
What is something interesting most people would not know about you?
I work at the Rocking Bobbin Quilt Shop in Garland two days a week teaching classes and selling fabric and sewing machines.
What adjectives best describe you?
Creative, a builder of connections and community, always learning something new.