Summer Missions
Over 250 students served on trips with Baylor Missions in the weeks after graduation. Baylor teams loved their global neighbors across seven countries including Brazil, Greece, Kenya, Peru, and more. Trips with Baylor Missions combine faithful worldwide service with discipline-specific education. Between 13 total mission teams, students put their classroom knowledge into faithful practice by uplifting communities, engaging with various cultures, and sharing the love of Christ.
Some trips brought multidisciplinary teams of students from various fields together to use their unique skills to serve communities around the world. Engineering and pre-nursing students joined forces to complete construction projects and host educational health workshops in Kenya. Students in Human Sciences and Design majors, such as child and family studies and nutrition, traveled to South Africa where they worked with agricultural programs and educator training sessions. The Honors College brought students to Greece to work with relief ministries continuing the work of some of the earliest churches. First generation college students in the First Abroad Fellows program completed construction projects in the Dominican Republic.
Other trips gave students in medical-related fields opportunities to use their vocations to impact the world. Nursing students assisted doctors in Guatemala. Members of the Latinx Association for Science and Health (LASH) shadowed physicians and cared for communities in the Dominican Republic. Baylor chapters of the Medical Service Organization (MSO), Alpha Epsilon Delta (AED), and American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA) sent students to support medical efforts in South Africa. Members of MedLife served in pop-up clinics in Peru.
Several trips combined music and ministry for students in various musical programs. School of Music and Dunn Center for Christian Music Studies students provided VBS ministries and music lessons in Brazil. The Men’s Choir performed shows and completed service projects across Kenya. Members of the Baylor Religious Hour Choir led worship services and projects in the Dominican Republic. Jazz Ensemble students performed for a local ministry and assisted with providing holistic care to the community in Kenya.
The summer at Baylor is a time full of global service, and these snapshots are only a small glimpse into the amazing stories of transformation, faith, and love that happened over the past month. Summer isn’t over yet—Baylor missions still commissions numerous trips heading out before fall. Stay tuned to hear more about how our students are faithfully engaging with the world.