Spiritual Life
The Office of Spiritual Life offers programs, persons, and resources to nurture theological depth, spiritual wholeness, and missional living in students, faculty, and staff.
Find a community of mentors, peers, and ministers who walk alongside you in your spiritual growth and development.
Explore the numerous chartered religious organizations Baylor has to offer and discover local churches in the Waco area.
We really aren't made to bear our burdens alone and all of us need someone to listen along the way.
Missions, Service and Public Life strives to shape Baylor's faithful engagement with Waco and the world.
Baylor Sports Ministry exists to develop a community of Christ-like leaders who personally follow Christ among their team, athletic department, community, and world.
Upcoming Events
See More EventsJoin students, faculty, and staff as we step out together across Waco and serve the community! Registration is open between October 1 and October 22.
A Baylor Missions team of Pre-PA Society students is serving in the Dominican Republic. This trip allows students to shadow local physicians and learn about the Dominican healthcare system during their time in the country. Students will also have the ability to meet and work with local children that One More Child works with on a regular basis.
A Baylor Missions team of KKG students is serving in Guatemala. This trip allows students to work in a local ministry center and nearby schools with our partners in Guatemala. KKG members will observe and participate in the ways that the ministry provides Christ-centered care for the families it serves.
A Baylor Missions team of CURE BU students is serving in the Philippines. Students will shadow Filipino medical doctors, surgeons, nurses and other health care providers in a local teaching hospital. They will also work with and minister to children living in a local orphanage/adoption center.
News & Stories
Read MoreOn September 26, 2024, Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida, causing widespread damage, injury, and death. As Helene weakened to a tropical depression, it continued to impact Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. Helene continues to leave a path of destruction, and efforts to rebuild and provide relief will be extensive. Nonprofit organizations have begun disaster relief to help with food, water, shelter, healthcare, and essential supplies. In times like these, you may be wondering how you can help. Keep reading to see where you can donate, how you can learn more, and other ways to provide aid.
Since 2008, each incoming class of new Baylor students has been welcomed with its own unique hymn, capturing an aspect of this moment of excitement, possibility and transition in each new Bear’s life.
This year’s hymn, “In This Day,” was written expressly for the Class of 2028, with lyrics and music by University Chaplain Burt Burleson (BA ’80) and Kathy Johnson (BM ’76). The lyrics are both a welcome and an invitation to our newest Bears as they move through these moments of excitement, transition and possibility. The accompanying music video features snapshot images of this special time (especially Line Camp, when students get to know Baylor and one another):
Once again this summer, Baylor students can be found around the globe, ministering and serving in 10 countries across four continents on Baylor Missions trips.
What makes Baylor’s mission trips distinct is the blending of service and calling. These trips are discipline-specific: students with similar career goals or interests come together for trips that allow them to further develop in areas like healthcare, business or music as they meet significant needs wherever they travel.
Baptist Student Ministry (BSM) is getting a new space on Baylor’s campus!
This spring, Baylor deeded over land for a new BSM center to the Baptist General Convention of Texas, which is working to complete fundraising for the new facility. The new center (see the rendering above) will be built at the corner of South Fourth Street and Daughtrey Avenue — near East Village and the Paul L. Foster Campus for Business and Innovation.