Missions & Public Life
Missions and Public Life strives to shape Baylor's faithful engagement with Waco and the world. We prepare men and women for worldwide leadership and service with a goal to make a better world...together.
To do so, we provide transformational opportunities for students to love their neighbors by cultivating self-discovery, deepening human connection, developing a healthy worldview, and equipping servant-leaders.
Global Missions
Grow, love, and serve while immersing yourself in different cultures, and integrating your faith, service, and learning in more than 20 locations worldwide.
Local Ministries
Join a team to engage, love, and serve the greater Waco community by partnering with local churches and organizations.
Better Together
Enhance your interfaith leadership to collaboratively address global challenges, and foster an inclusive campus community for students of all faith traditions.
Public Deliberation Initiative
Engage in deliberation forums, trainings, and promote civil discourse and vibrant deliberative democracy in the Baylor, Waco, and surrounding area.
Oct. 8, 2020
Baylor prof studies Christianity’s growth around the globe
What does Christianity look like around the world? How does it spread to new peoples and new regions? Those are the sort of broad questions that Dr. Carlos Cardoza-Orlandi, Baylor’s Frederick E. Roach Professor of World Christianity, seeks to answer through his research, as he studies the vitality of the Christian faith in regions around …
Oct. 8, 2020
Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion Presents ‘History of Latin American Evangelicalism’
WACO, Texas (Oct. 8, 2020) — The Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion (ISR) this week is virtually presenting the inaugural conference of the Evangelical Studies Program on the “History of Latin American Evangelicalism.”
Oct. 7, 2020
From meals to pastoral care, how Baylor helps students in COVID-19 isolation/quarantine
The good news: Since an initial spike shortly after students returned to campus early this fall, Baylor’s fight against the coronavirus seems to be working; the number of active COVID-19 cases on campus has remained below 1% of the campus community for about a month now. The bad news: That still means there are 50-100 …
Sep. 10, 2020
Baylor Missions Week Goes Virtual
The first virtual Baylor Missions Week kicks off on Monday, Sept. 14, 2020, and extends through Friday, Sept. 18, 2020!