Baylor’s mission remains “to educate men and women for worldwide leadership and service by integrating academic excellence and Christian commitment within a caring community.” Over 160 Baylor students put that emphasis on Christian service to work this summer on mission trips coordinated through Baylor’s Spiritual Life office. Twelve teams, many of them providing discipline-specific services, […]
A year ago tomorrow, Hurricane Ike made landfall, devastating much of the Texas coast near Galveston. Here at Baylor, the University immediately sprung into action, providing counselors and financial aid for students whose families suffered in the storm and working to help others from the coast who needed assistance. Down in Galveston, a family of […]
Over 160 Baylor students went on mission trips this summer coordinated through Baylor’s Spiritual Life office to places like Kenya, Uganda, Honduras, Argentina and Rwanda, but they weren’t the only Bears who used their summer breaks to serve on mission trips. Alumni Bob Gillchrest (c/o ’66) and his wife Anita (BSN ’69) wrote in to […]
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 […]
