Tapestry OUTDOORS. Mental health seminar set next Sunday APRIL 24, :30 P.M. a p a t h w a y s s e r v i c e

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1 This Week at Wilshire Tapestry Weekly newsletter of Wilshire Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas Building a community of faith shaped by the Spirit of Jesus Christ Volume 64 No. 17 u April 24, 2016 Mental health seminar set next Sunday Mental Health: Questions and Answers for Caregivers will be the topic of a special information session to be offered during the Sunday School hour on May 1. The seminar will be led by John Dornheim, special projects manager for the Dallas chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness. No reservation is required, and the presentation is open to the community. It will be held in Community Hall from 9:45 to 10:45 a.m. This session will offer an overview of mental health issues and resources available to help those needing personal assistance as well as those helping family members and friends. There will be time for questions, and based on needs expressed that day, additional classes may be offered at Wilshire in the future. John currently serves as president of the Texas affiliate of NAMI, serves on the Community Board of Dallas County Adult Protective Services, and is co-chair of the North Texas Suicide Prevention Coalition. He holds dual degrees in journalism and English from Southern Methodist University and previously worked as the community liaison and continuing education administrator for Green Oaks Hospital. a p a t h w a y s s e r v i c e OUTDOORS APRIL 24, :30 P.M. Service will be held in the prayer garden on the west side of the church building. bring blankets for the kids seating provided for adults bring a dessert to share Today 8:30 a.m. Worship 9:40 a.m. Sunday School 9:40 a.m. Living Your God-given Strengths Room 1100-C 11:00 a.m. Food Truck Sunday North parking 11:00 a.m. Worship 12:00 p.m. Basic Money Management for Women Room :00 p.m. Food on the Move info. meeting Room 1205-L 12:00 p.m. Inclusion and Diversity Study Group 2:30 p.m. Nova 4:00 p.m. Youth Choir and Paradiso 4:00 p.m. Carillon Ringers 5:30 p.m. Shekinah 6:30 p.m. Vespers James Gallery Garden Monday, April 25 10:00 a.m. 42 Monday Room 1205-G 11:30 a.m. Cardiac support group Room 1205-L 2:00 p.m. Rusty Caboose exercise class Room :00 p.m. Wilshire Winds Tuesday, April 26 11:15 a.m. Chair yoga Room :15 p.m. Yoga Room 3208 Wednesday, April 27 9:30 a.m. New Song Choral Hall 11:00 a.m. Koinonia Café Comm. Hall 12:00 p.m. Bible Study Comm. Hall 5:00 p.m. Children s handbells Room :00 P.m. Koinonia Café Comm. Hall 5:00 p.m. Spanish as a Second Lang. Room 3202 Continued on page 2

2 Front pew Another Voice The front pew at church is a sacred place. Most Sunday mornings, youth sit in the front center pew, which offers a great visual of the future of the church. And on the first Sundays of the month, deacons occupy the front pews as they wait to serve the Lord s Supper, a visual reminder of those who have been called out for service. But it is also the front pew where families sit during funerals and memorial services. These are the reserved seats of honor for those who are grieving deep losses. And it is in this pew that sorrow meets the proclamation of resurrection hope. At weddings, family members also occupy the front pew, but for happier reasons. The parents of the bride and the parents of the groom usually sit front and center so they have the best view of the ceremony. And so it is from this pew that joys are celebrated. When people walk the aisle to join the church, to profess faith in Jesus Christ or to make known some other commitment of faith, they occupy the front pew as they await introduction to the congregation. In these moments, the front pew becomes the place of welcome and new beginnings. The same is true for the side front pew on days we have baby dedications. It is here that extended families gather to celebrate the gift of new life and to make promises to raise a child in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. In other venues, people seek out the front-row seats because they are prime locations to see and to be seen. But at church, having a front-row seat means something much different: service, learning, grieving, joy, goodbyes and new beginnings. It is here on these three pews left, center and right that the paths of life mix and mingle and remind us that the church is a refuge for all seasons of life. Mark Wingfield This Week at Wilshire Continued from page 1 Wednesday, April 27 6:00 p.m. Music and Missions and Bible Skills 6:00 p.m. Gallery Café, James Gallery 6:00 p.m. Parenting the Love and Logic Way, Room :00 p.m. MOPS Steering, Room :15 p.m. Yoga class, Room :30 p.m. Watershed, Youth Center Thursday, April 28 1:30 p.m. Knit Unto Others, Parlor 2:00 p.m. Rusty Caboose, Room 3211 Friday, April 29 9:00 a.m. MOPs Mothers of Preschoolers, Room :00 p.m. New Song Celebration Banquet, Comm. Hall This Wednesday at Wilshire Come join the seven-week study of the book of Revelation at noon or at 6 p.m. In the evening, there s a new parenting class called Love & Logic. Wednesday evening programs for preschoolers, children and youth are all on regular schedules. Coming up on Wednesday evenings: May 4, quarterly church conference for adults, first through sixth grade Bible skills and Globetrekkers open house, 7 to 7:25 p.m. in classrooms; May 11, preschool and children s choirs and handbells spring program, 6:15 p.m., in the Sanctuary; May 18, preschool and children s choirs and missions end-of-year parties, 6 to 7:25 p.m. Koinonia Café on Wednesdays April 27: Carved roasted turkey, salisbury steak, garlic mashed potatoes, green beans amandine, fried okra, sautéed white corn, coleslaw, Parker House rolls, coconut cake. May 4: Carved Cajun chicken halves, grilled pork chops, scalloped potatoes, roasted cauliflower, tomatoes and basil, steamed spinach, three-bean salad, garlic bread, assorted pie slices. Condolences to: x Cathy Gunnin on the death of her husband, Bill Gunnin, April 18. x Erlann Clark on the death of her mother, April 17. New member: x Trusstin Perry Tapestry (USPS ) is published weekly except Christmas week by Wilshire Baptist Church, 4316 Abrams Rd., Dallas TX Periodicals postage paid at Dallas, TX. Telephone: (214) Website: Editor: Mark Wingfield. Contributing writer: Sue Coffman. Postmaster: Send change of address to 4316 Abrams Rd., Dallas TX

3 Group outing Texas Rangers vs. Houston Astros Tuesday, June 7 Bus departs Wilshire at 5:30 p.m. $14 per person Sign up in church office All-church picnic Wilshire at the Lake Sunday, May 22 5 to 7 p.m. Fun for all ages Petting zoo and pony rides Live music by Wilshire s own Big Thicket at White Rock Lake Access Big Thicket off East Lawther Drive, just south of Mockingbird WHAT TO BRING: o Church will provide fried chicken, beans and drinks. o You re asked to bring a large side dish to share. o Last names A-H bring salads and fruits o Last names I-P bring vegetables o Last names Q-Z bring desserts NEXT SUNDAY Reception honoring Jeff Brummel on his 10th anniversary as Wilshire s organist James Gallery After both morning services Nihonga (Japanesestyle) paintings incorporate natural pigments pulverized from semiprecious minerals such as azurite, malachite, cinnabar, shells and sumi ink as coloring materials. The materials are painted onto paper and silk. All works by Delro Rosco, who lives in Hawai i. Paintings focus on the creation of nature, diminishing goodness and a longing to return to that ideal reality. NOW ON DISPLAY IN SOUTH LOBBY 3

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5 The numbers Report for April 17 Sunday School Officers Preschool...78 Children Youth Young adult Median adult Senior adult Total present Total previous week Total last year Generosity Unified Budget received $48,704 Unified Budget projected $85,930 Unified Budget YTD $1,220,454 Unified Budget projected $1,460,813 Pathways Endowment received YTD $20,863 Pathways Endowment current fund value $3,513,458 December 31 goal $4,910,290 December 1 goal $4,296,503 November 1 goal $3,952,783 October 1 goal $3,559,960 September 1 goal $3,216,240 August 1 goal $2,798,865 July 1 goal $2,406,042 June 1 goal $1,988,667 May 1 goal $1,546,741 April 1 goal $1,203,071 March 1 goal $810,198 February 1 goal $466,478 Unified Budget When Carol Smith s daughter Jennifer was three months old, her husband, Garland, decided to visit other churches while Carol recuperated from childbirth. When he came home the first Sunday, he said he had found a church, she recalled. We went together the next Sunday to Wilshire. By the end of the service we knew that Wilshire was the church for us. When God tells you something, he speaks pretty loudly, she said. We ve been at Wilshire for 42 years now. Besides the worship service, the Bible teaching was one of the main things that drew us to Wilshire, Carol added. When the Smiths first joined, they were under the guidance of Clairene and Fred Herold as they became active in working and serving. Now they are members of Charlie s Angels Class. The Smiths also have taught a couples class, and over the years she has taught Vacation Bible School, a junior high Sunday School class and older classes. She and three other teachers are now leading the Friendship Class for senior adults. She has sung second soprano in New Song since the beginning 10 years ago, and the Smiths are active in Wilshire Adventurers. Born in Dallas, Carol grew up participating in Brownies and Girl Scouts. My mother was a Brownie leader, and completing the assignments for awards, patches and pins gave me the incentive to work harder to succeed. However, music was her favorite activity. In the second grade I sang a solo during the presentation of the Christmas story, she said. I sang my first real solo in sixth grade, and after that I sang in every choral group I could. Those experiences brought me out of my shell, as I was very shy. Carol took piano lessons for 10 years and accompanied her junior high orchestra. It I Am Wilshire Carol Smith was a delightful experience, and on one program I played a duet with the orchestra, she said. That was such a challenge. At Woodrow Wilson High School she had to choose between band and choir. I chose band, where I played flute, because ours was one of the first marching bands that girls could participate in, she explained. Carol had been doublepromoted twice, so when she graduated in January 1952, she was just 16. I was too young to enter the work world, so my father suggested that I go to college, she said. I went to Texas Woman s University and lived in the dorm with a senior roommate. It was a wonderful experience, and I made all A s. That summer I worked at Texas Instruments, where my father was an accountant, she said. I was placed in inventory control, where I worked with tiny figures. The people were very good to me, but the best part was the wonderful relationship I developed with my father by riding to and from work with him. That fall I transferred to Texas Tech University because it was a bigger school and because a boyfriend from high school was there, Carol said. I majored in accounting. I thought I would be good at it because my father was. Soon discovering that accounting was not her calling, she returned to Dallas after one semester and first worked at a shoe store. I left when buying shoes began to eat up my profits, she said. After brief stays elsewhere, she began a long career with Dr Pepper in 1958, starting as a secretary in the advertising department. In 1964, after her third child was born, Carol ended her marriage to her first husband. Alice, her daughter from this marriage, is a nurse practitioner in Mesquite. One son, Mark, is a retired auto mechanic in Alabama; her other son, Tommy, works in computer science in Dallas. She and her second husband, Garland, technically met as preschoolers at Pleasant Grove Christian Church. When she was 8, her family returned to Dallas and went to Mount Auburn Christian Church and then East Dallas Christian Church. When she was an adult, the choir director asked her to teach the first- and secondgrade choir. It was a paid position, and I did that for several years, she said. The Smiths became reacquainted when both sang in the choir, and they were married in We ve had a wonderful marriage, she said. We have two children. Jennifer teaches at a school in Plano for children with disabilities, and Chris is in the construction business in Dallas. We have 11 grandchildren. Right after Garland and I were married, we began taking camping trips with the children and their friends, as we had a tent that slept eight, Carol said. When Jennifer was in preschool, I went to work part time at Dr Pepper. One benefit was that my boss paid for employees to take trips to places such as Hawaii and California. When I retired in 2003, I was the full-time secretary to the president and CEO. When he opened his own office, he asked me to run it. 5

6 6 Wilshire contacts To any member of the Wilshire staff, use the first initial with the full last name and then To phone staff, dial (214) 452- and the four-digit extension: Pastoral offices George Mason (3132) Debby Burton (3132) Mark Wingfield (3128) Kathi Lyle (3130) Pathways to Ministry Geri McKenzie (3159) Erica Whitaker (3156) Matthew Broyles (3154) Timothy Peoples (3153) Joshua Thiering (3155) Business offices David Nabors (3157) Lori Gooden (3131) Susan Kimball (3108) Dale Pride (3101) Holly Irvin (3150) Beverly Faubion (3111) Adam Scheuermann (3136) Age-graded ministries Jessica Capps (3129) Darren DeMent (3102) Julie Girards (3103) Joan Hammons (3141) Carol Cabaniss (3106) Care ministries Tiffany Wright (3107) Debby Burton (3132) Missions/advocacy offices Heather Mustain (3110) Katie Murray (3126) Abbey Adcox (3127) Music offices Doug Haney (3123) Sarah Stafford (3121) Barbara Clayton (3125) Jeff Brummel (3122) Food services Chris Terry (3117) Weekday Education Mary Browder (3115) Parish nurse Linda Garner (3151) Library Barbara Peterson (3114) Reception desk (214) Wilshire Baptist Church 4316 Abrams Rd Dallas TX Saturday, May 21 Join the Adventurers for a trip to the Waxahachie Chautauqua for a musical program titled Heaven s Front Porch. This is a program of Southern congregational singing as experienced in the first half of the 20th century. A chartered motor coach will depart Wilshire at noon and stop in Waxahachie for lunch at Rockett Cafe, then go to the Chautauqua Auditorium for a 3 p.m. performance. Cost is $27,which includes lunch and admission. Reserve your place at the Wilshire Adventurers table in Community Hall on Wednesdays at noon or in James Gallery on Sunday mornings. Tuesday, June 7 Texas Rangers vs. Houston Astros A chartered motor coach will depart Wilshire at 5:30 p.m. with direct service to Globe Life PERIODICALS RATE Park. Game time is 7:05 p.m. Cost is $14 per person. Tickets will be distributed when you get on the bus, but advance reservations and payment are required. Make your reservation in the front office at the church. This event is open to all ages. Tuesday, June 21 Sondra Wakefield portrays the Old Testament character Rahab in a dramatic presentation at 10:30 a.m. After the program, enjoy lunch for $7 and then stay for table games. No reservation required; just show up. Tuesday, July 26 Join the Adventurers for a day trip to Ham Orchards in Terrell. A chartered motor coach will depart Wilshire at 10 a.m. and return to the church by 3 p.m. Shop for peaches right where they are grown, and enjoy lunch on your own in the Ham Orchards restaurant. This trip is free, but lunch and the peaches are on your own. Sign up at the Wilshire Adventurers table in Community Hall on Wednesdays at noon or in James Gallery on Sunday mornings to reserve your place on the bus.