Baylor & Waco students

You just got here. This is the easy part.

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

Come to either. Or both.

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.

The main service

Sunday Worship

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.

What we aren’t going to pretend

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.

Six young men sitting arm in arm around a low table at home, with two electric hotpots, sliced beef, prawns, tofu and vegetables laid out.
There’s nothing hotpot can’t fix. If one round won’t do it, have two.

Baylor Bible Bears 大学生组

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 touch

Come and sit at the back

There’s a seat here with nothing attached to it.

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.

Sunday Worship Sunday 11:00 AM
Address 1801 Gurley Avenue
Waco, TX 76706

We’re non-denominational, and share this building with Emmanuel Baptist Church, our partner congregation.

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