Back in May, we noted that athletics chaplain Wes Yeary was leading a 16-member team comprised primarily of Baylor student-athletes on a two-week mission trip to Kenya. Several of you wrote in asking for an update, and thankfully, Jerry Hill at the Baylor Bear Insider has done just that with this excellent story. The team […]
One of @BaylorProud’s followers on Twitter notified us of this next item (thanks Sarah!) … HHPR professor Dr. Donald Fuller, who heads up Baylor’s undergraduate athletic training program, has been nominated as the 2009 American Volunteer from the Meals on Wheels Association of America! Here’s the video his nominators compiled about his service: You can […]
We wrote earlier this month about Baylor sophomore Kristin Elliot being honored with a Jefferson Award for public service; now this week comes news of yet another member of the Baylor family receiving the award. Alumna Betsy Robinson founded Fuzzy Friends Rescue animal shelter in 1996, and she has been the driving force behind one […]
Some of you might recognize the name Peter Greenberg; I didn’t. But check out his credentials: travel editor for NBC’s Today show and correspondent for Newsweek, Men’s Health, CNN and Oprah. In other words, he’s a man of some influence — and who was recently influenced by his random encounter with a Baylor alumna. On […]
At the age of 19, sophomore Kristin Elliott has not only completed her first year at Baylor; she’s also battled cancer in her leg and lungs and raised nearly $300,000 for an orphanage and AIDS clinic in Zambia. But her work isn’t done, and she continues to raise money for the project. That’s why Houston’s […]
Over the past year, I’d heard some buzz around campus about the incredible amount of student involvement in organizations dedicated to addressing the issue of poverty, both locally and globally. But I had no idea just how many groups around Waco are dedicated to tackling the issue until I saw this story and the related […]
Walai Jantawiboon, a first-generation Chinese born in Thailand, saw firsthand the devastation brought by the tsunami that struck Thailand in 2004. Gracie Brownell suffered in her home country, too, often going hungry and enduring homelessness as a child in Liberia during her native land’s civil war. In time, the tragedies led both Walai (pictured) and […]
Stumbled across this article today in Texas Lawyer about the role of faith at religiously affiliated law schools. The article talks quite a bit about Baylor Law School, and while we’ve often read about how Baylor Law focuses on preparing students for the courtroom in very practical ways, there’s another angle to the preparation as […]
When athletics chaplain Wes Yeary was hired last year, one of his charges was to help organize mission trips for Baylor’s student-athletes, as the former football letterman described in this Baylor Magazine feature. This month, Yeary is leading a 16-member team to Kenya for two weeks, where the group will work with existing ministries to […]
Baylor students spread across Waco last weekend for the spring Steppin’ Out, volunteering all over the city: helping clean up the shores of Lake Waco, working on a parking lot at Rapoport Academy, and helping repaint several homes around town, among a number of projects. (Click here for a photo gallery from Saturday’s events.) But […]
