The Soundings Project
Funded by Lilly Endowment Inc., the Soundings Project aims to support the common work of the Christian university and the church, namely to help people lead lives of purpose and significance. To this end, Baylor will serve as an innovation hub for twelve Texas congregations as the university and congregational leaders together reflect theologically and practically about the nature of vocation.
Soundings will involve twelve partner churches that represent the diversity of Texas congregational life: Baptist and non-Baptist, Protestant and Catholic, rural and urban, small and large, with a wide range of ages, ethnicities, and socio-economic locations.
Baylor and the partner congregations will build rich relationships as they learn together more about their particular communities and how best to minister to them. Each congregation will propose a project that Soundings will fund up to $30,000.
Continue to deepen the community of learning and purpose between and within the congregations and the university. Strengthen the life of the congregations as their members are enriched by the various projects.
Both Baylor and the partner congregations will become better equipped to live out their missions in partnership with one another. Strengthened ecumenical and interracial dialogue to heal and build up the Body of Christ in Waco and Texas at large.