{"id":20390,"date":"2017-11-15T05:04:04","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T11:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/?p=20390"},"modified":"2017-11-15T15:04:13","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T21:04:13","slug":"bearsofbaylor-ever-since-i-came-here-people-have-been-very-welcoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2017\/11\/bearsofbaylor-ever-since-i-came-here-people-have-been-very-welcoming\/","title":{"rendered":"#BearsOfBaylor &#8212; &#8220;Ever since I came here, people have been very welcoming&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Ever since I came here, people have been very welcoming, having open arms toward me and everything, and I really got a flavor of that at Line Camp. My Line Camp leader was very willing to talk about basically anything under the sun&#8230; One very large thing that she talked about with me was the aspect of religion here. Sometimes it might be a little intimidating if you\u2019re from a different denomination that\u2019s not exactly Christian, and I kind of fall under that umbrella.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A lot of what I was looking for in Baylor was more from an education perspective than a faith-based one. It was reassuring to know that even though some things weren\u2019t pertaining exactly to my denomination, I was still able to take a lot away from things like Chapel or a worship service. There are a lot of values and virtues that are brought out in people, particularly with guest speakers. Like with Church Under the Bridge, I felt that there was a lot more of a service aspect than just putting your hands up and singing. Right now there\u2019s a lot of hope that can be found in not just religion, but the idea of community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-20392\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/bob-welcoming-oct17-sq.jpg\" alt=\"#BearsOfBaylor\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/bob-welcoming-oct17-sq.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/bob-welcoming-oct17-sq-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/bob-welcoming-oct17-sq-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/bob-welcoming-oct17-sq-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/bob-welcoming-oct17-sq-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>[Every Baylor Bear has a story;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/category\/bearsofbaylor\/\">#BearsOfBaylor<\/a>\u00a0brings those stories to you, one by one. These stories, these people&#8230; This is our Baylor.]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Ever since I came here, people have been very welcoming, having open arms toward me and everything, and I really got a flavor of that at Line Camp. My Line Camp leader was very willing to talk about basically anything under the sun&#8230; One very large thing that she talked about with me was the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bearsofbaylor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20390","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}