Easier first step
Friday Bible Study
Friday 6:00 PM
It starts with dinner. Actual dinner, cooked by actual people, before anything religious happens. If you only ever come for the food and the conversation, that’s genuinely fine.
Baylor & Waco students
This church was started in 1993 by Chinese students at Baylor who were far from home and wanted somewhere to be. Thirty-odd years later that’s still most of what it does.
Two ways in
Easier first step
Friday 6:00 PM
It starts with dinner. Actual dinner, cooked by actual people, before anything religious happens. If you only ever come for the food and the conversation, that’s genuinely fine.
The main service
Sunday 11:00 AM
Worship in song, then a message from the Bible. It’s in Mandarin, and if you don’t understand it we’ll bring you headphones and interpret. Sit at the back if you want to. Plenty of people did on their first day.
Moving countries for a degree is lonely in a way that’s hard to describe to people back home. The first semester is admin, bad sleep, and food that’s nearly right. A church can’t fix that.
What it can do is be a room, at a fixed time, every week, where people know your name and there’s something hot to eat. That turns out to matter more than it sounds.
Known as BBB, the group is mostly Baylor undergraduates and graduate students, many of them a long way from home for the first time.
Friday evenings, as one of the three Friday Bible study groups
Get in touchCome and sit at the back
You don’t need to believe anything in particular, know anyone, or bring anything. Turn up on a Sunday, or write first and we’ll arrange for someone to meet you at the door.
We’re non-denominational, and share this building with Emmanuel Baptist Church, our partner congregation.
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