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 EventsFaculty and staff are invited to a service of prayer and worship with the Baylor family as we bring the semester to an end. Various members of the Baylor community will lead in worship. A complimentary fellowship luncheon for faculty and staff will follow in Truett Seminary’s Great Hall.
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 MoreWith six southeastern states still reeling from successive hurricanes Helene and Milton, Baylor University students joined together with the BearAid Disaster Relief Team to pack 100 “flood buckets” for communities impacted by widespread destruction.
With the east coast still reeling from Hurricane Helene, Hurricane Milton made landfall in Florida on October 9, 2024. Hurricane Milton is set to cause widespread destruction in communities across the coast. Our neighbors in Florida and the east coast are in need of support. Keep reading to see Baylor Missions, Service & Public Life's response to Hurricane Milton, and how you can help.
On 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):