Meet the Eldership Team


wendell mcpherson

Wendell McPherson has served as an elder in the Whitney congregation since 1988. Wendell and his wife, Sammye, have been members here since 1986. Wendell’s love for the Honduras Outreach Mission work began with his first trip to Honduras in 1996. Since that time, he has made many trips and has solidified friendships among the Honduran brethren.

Before fully retiring in 2006, Wendell was engaged in farming and ranching with emphasis on peanut and cattle production. Sammye dedicated 29 years to teaching with the last 21 being in Whitney ISD. Wendell and Sammye have three daughters, Deanna Karr, Angie Brunett, and Cindy Whitehead. They all continue to reside in Whitney. Besides interest in grandchildren, Wendell enjoys traveling, hunting, fishing, and playing dominoes.


Dawson “Buster” MAsters

Buster was born in Grapeland, Texas. At the age of four, he was placed in the Boles Home, a ministry of the Church of Christ. The lived there until he graduated from high school and obeyed the Gospel in his early teens. In 1962, he married Carolyn and they were blessed with two sons, raising them in Arlington, Texas. As a young man, he was drafted into the Army and served for two years. Buster made his living as an electrician, a homebuilder, and an inspector of gas and oil plants.

Buster has been involved in the church for all of his adult life. As a young couple, he and Carolyn attended Skillman Avenue in Dallas, Randol Mill in Arlington, Mansfield, and later, Pleasant Ridge in Arlington, where he served as a deacon. In 1991, they moved to east Texas and were members of the Tenaha congregation for 29 years. While living in Tenaha, Buster was one of the Bible class teachers and designed and built the new church building.

In 2019, Buster and Carolyn moved to Hillsboro and visited several congregations in the area, making the Whitney congregation their new home to work and serve the Lord. Buster loves the Lord and all mankind.


Dennis Wolfshohl

Dennis was born and raised in McAllen, Texas. After graduating from McAllen High School, he joined the United States Air Force and served in Vietnam during the war, from 1969-1970. In April of 1972, he met Kathy, and after a brief courtship, they were married on July 10th, 1972 in Luling, Texas. When they got married, Dennis was a Methodist and Kathy was a faithful member of the Lord’s church. After several years of Kathy being persistent about asking Dennis to worship with her, he finally gave in and saw the light, being baptized on April 7th, 1976 at a Gospel meeting near Austin.

Dennis and Kathy were blessed with two daughters, Gina and Amber, who are both baptized believers. They are blessed with five grandchildren (four of whom are baptized) and five great-grandchildren.

In 1990, Dennis retired from the Air Force at the rank of Chief Master Sergeant after 22 1/2 years of service to our country. He would then go on to work for the US Postal Service for 10 years and would later work for the Waco Glass Plant for a little over seven years.

Dennis served as a deacon for the Honolulu church from 1989-90 and helped to establish the bus ministry on the Waianae coast of Honolulu. He also served as a deacon at the Columbus Ave church in Waco from 2000-10 and then again at the New Road church in Waco from 2012-15. Dennis and Kathy retired and moved to Whitney in 2019.