For Wilshire Baptist Church
“They lived in a fever all the time. Awake, they acted more like caged wild animals than normal human beings. Excitement! Ever more excitement! It seemed they were unable to sit quiet and think for any length of time but must have frequent new contacts from the outside to enable them to exist. It would seem their inner selves were not good company.”
For Wilshire Baptist Church
If you’ve been near the office at Wilshire recently, you’ve probably seen the large, framed print of the congregational photo that was taken by Allan Akins in September. It’s the same cover photo at the top of Wilshire’s Facebook page. It’s a beautiful, lively photo showing the church as it truly is – the people and not the building. Still, I cringe when I see it because standing front and center is LeAnn and me.
For Wilshire Baptist Church
For a brief two years in the 1990s I worked as a financial news reporter in the airline industry, and that put me in the presence of Southwest Airlines co-founder Herb Kelleher on a handful of memorable occasions. Kelleher passed away recently, and that has me remembering shareholder meetings, group interviews in his office and even a small luncheon at The Palm. The man was the same in every setting: focused but friendly, serious but jovial.
