{"id":1316,"date":"2009-05-14T13:33:29","date_gmt":"2009-05-14T18:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homepages.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/?p=1316"},"modified":"2009-05-14T13:33:29","modified_gmt":"2009-05-14T18:33:29","slug":"sports-chaplain-leads-student-athletes-on-mission-trip-to-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2009\/05\/sports-chaplain-leads-student-athletes-on-mission-trip-to-kenya\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports chaplain leads student-athletes on mission trip to Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/kenya-may09.jpg\" alt=\"kenya-may09\" width=\"225\" height=\"228\" align=\"right\" \/>When athletics chaplain <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylorbears.com\/genrel\/043008aaa.html\" target=\"_blank\">Wes Yeary<\/a> was hired last year, one of his charges was to help organize mission trips for Baylor&#8217;s student-athletes, as the former football letterman described in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylormag.com\/story.php?story=006250\" target=\"_blank\">this <em>Baylor Magazine<\/em> feature<\/a>. This month, Yeary is leading a 16-member team to Kenya for two weeks, where the group will work with existing ministries to street children, homeless women and recovering addicts as well as conducting sports clinics.<\/p>\n<p>Jerry Hill&#8217;s Baylor Bear Insider, a newsletter for members of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylorbearfoundation.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Baylor Bear Foundation<\/a>, recently carried <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylorbears.com\/genrel\/050209aaa.html\" target=\"_blank\">an excellent story on how Yeary&#8217;s trip has come together<\/a> that&#8217;s well worth reading. Hill noted that the group was still in additional need of funding for the trip; anyone interested in supporting the Baylor sports ministry team or any of Baylor&#8217;s University Missions teams can make donations online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/spirituallife\/index.php?id=53462\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/spirituallife\/index.php?id=53462<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, student-athlete missionaries!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When athletics chaplain Wes Yeary was hired last year, one of his charges was to help organize mission trips for Baylor&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8,13,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics","category-faith","category-service","category-student-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}