Senior Night 2025

[ Applause ] >> Okay, I just found one of the things that I would really like to try and focus on these things. So, my name is Frank, I'm a senior. So, I came to Baylor as a head of senior, not only a single person on campus here. And I've been told by my cousin to be a regular grad to go to Baylor right up. I was going to be here on the first day, which was not a lot of academic days. Just coming to try it out and not only even by this day. Little did I know that right now you would become a such a firm living experience. I could be experienced the authentic nature of our era and the people I met here. And I drove Ted first into all things our era. I was overwhelmed with the kindness people showed to me, offering rise to church, taking you to coffee, just to get to know me, and giving you free therapy, letting you stay at the classes when I need the places to stay. Our era has also brought me to new year-end of experiences. I'm going to have some great events I did in the very early year. One of the past years, so, because we asked him about the afterwards, because they were just like this right there. Yeah, our era is full of people who genuinely care and have never been surrounded by so many people who love me so well. Our era has provided me with a consistency and college is a time for a lot of consistency. So, I was quickly drawn to bring a little bit of new to the pilot I wanted to say. Despite the name, I have really hard time showing my son Grace, and accepting my limits and failures. An Arirabha's taught me a time and time again that our Savior meets us in our limits and failures and loves us despite racial claims. I've learned just how simple I really am and how much I've really used me. Arirabha's brought me my closest friends, providing you with the council, taught me how to move towards people and ultimately has taught me about college and his love for me. I want to encourage you all to meet into this season's life and to this community here. College is hard, but is so fun and as a cliche as it sounds, it really does go so fast. Arirabha has given me some of my honest memories of college and I can't think this mystery enough for the central role it has played in my faith in the character of college over the past four years. I am not thinking Baylor was thinking of as I do. Thank you for your glory and keeping an Alive and all of your other campus staff in interns for the role you've played in my life over the past four years. I really can't think you've won. The thought of not coming to us in travel on Wednesday next week is hard to come to church with. But I'll walk out of these doors for the last time and I can confidently sleep knowing that I can't go anywhere outside of college speech and his love and faith will strengthen your minute. Thank you. [Applause] Hey all my name is Bill. If we haven't met, I'd love to meet you all after this. My four years Baylor would definitely have it share of ups and downs. But I'm very blessed to find a great community here and in large part that's because of the RUF. I started coming to RUF as a freshman. He really didn't know anyone here. But I feel now as I'm leaving, I've met so many great people and great friends who will continue to be. Whether it was a good week or a tougher week, I knew I could always rely on the good news that RUF almost in nights. And that was always the best experience to my how my week was going. However, RUF offers so many more opportunities to grow and find community and events. Whether that was game nights or fall conference or anything in between, I've had some great memories here with some great people. I want to thank Wade especially for his leadership and his side-for-ship and his willingness to guidance the word with us every Wednesday night. But also the many interns who have served here since I have been here, including Graham, Justin, Olivia, Katie, and Lauren. Thank you all so much. Thank you all. [ Applause ] Hi, I'm a love for you. Also have a bet. And I'm a graduating senior and I'm an attending RUF for the last year and a half. My first year at Baylor was a time where I got to live out and you kind of dependents as to everyone. And dependents in how I spend my free time, how I handled school, and how I pursue my relationship with God. As for those things that you begin to individually or by done, you begin to question when you once always took for principle. My thing was challenged in my first couple of years of Baylor not because of any external reasons, but because I was finally experiencing what it meant to pursue Christ going on my own. So I took my spiritual journey fully on my own. With some of my devours I picked up a religion line and decided to try to sort things out for myself. Except I found that going along with this route and figuring things out for myself and by myself was a problem. My junior year I humbly had to fulfill my last job of credit and I had a few friends who were away and decided that they're calm or would be the only way I'd ever feel the requirement. So that was free and again attending RUF. And this might sound super cliché considering most of you are here probably more chilling credit, but take it from me, some of you hate typical predictable cliches, that the minute we pick me up that RUF provided is true to something I wish I had had for all of the warriors of college. Those who come together here are filled with a genuine tear to shed kindness and learn something more than the usual name of major home town. Like this Tushuaim, and even more colleges Tushuaim, it's an ancient trip in and out of situations with minimal community and conversation. I already have everyone for the students to weigh himself or so open to anybody that truly believes in how he begins to perceive your daily interactions. And I can truly say that I have always left looking towards the rest of the week with more optimism than I went into Alice and Chapelwood every Wednesday night. So I think of a goal if there was one second system where I was going to work in my life during my time at Baylor, it would be that God's grace and love is always out there drawing you in completely irresistible. And one of the greatest gifts God gave man is to me. So even if you don't find him here at RUF, although I think you really will, if you give him a true open child, I hope you'll find that somewhere in the end. Okay, I'm going to use the other one in this here. I never know anything like that too close to the world. I'm going to try to get this one short in this week because I put myself the shorter it is, the less likely I'm going to cry. So I turned into a guardian rather than a fine of sophomore year. And the God that I was dating at the time brought me in quickly because I wanted to be every Wednesday night. It became a place where I used to always come in the middle of the week and be refreshed with the promise of the gospel. Junior year, I really struggled with my friends after a lot of my friends had graduated early and I really have a community of people to be around, especially like when they were going to build me up in Christ. And after reading with Warren, who has been an amazing friend to me ever since. We don't live in wisdom best for your app or your app. I'm here at Baylor. I have been able to share in God's abundance and goodness for these people. And that's the one thing in life that is constant and me too. And as we remind us every week, the grass and rivers and water spade will be the work of the Lord's State forever. I haven't been able to be here as much this year. Just like it's a big deal. But now that my current Baylor is coming to a close and I'm moving on to some of more great things. The guy that brought me here, not only the first time in my career, but getting married in 31 days. So beautiful. [APPLAUSE] I know where to go. I would have found my wife's junior and I could sit with her in the next one. I don't like her brought me here to meet everyone at Argylo. And I hope that you can get part of the people here. This is just a trouble credit at the Lundberg, Lundberg. It's a really great place to be. This truly is one of the most special winners here at Baylor. [APPLAUSE] I'm going in this field where we live. The findings chase I am a second-year grad student. So I came to Baylor in 2019 as a freshman. I make two big three labs. God has worked through RUF to minister to me in a variety of ways. Through my years here. But recently, I think the biggest way they got the network is just by providing a place of rest. Here at Baylor, I think my experience is like a lot of you guys' experience. We get told to do a lot of things and there are a lot of good things, but it can become exhausting. And on Wednesday night, I get to come here and hear what's been done for me. And that is life for me. And I really mean, I don't think I would be able to do what I'm done here without that. So I just encourage you not to look at this as a religious checkmark, something to check off your list. This is a place where you can come and hear good news as a free gift. And that's really how we grow. And that's been the biggest paradigm shift in my life since coming to Oregon. So everybody, all interns, way naming and Miles Davis and Lucy, it's been great to get to know you guys going to miss this place and miss all you guys. So thanks. [APPLAUSE] All right, guys. My name is Jack. You have me. I'm a Hanna's fiance. And what? Thanks. I'm excited to. I've been coming here since the freshman year. Like everyone said, it's been a great place to be. Good friends, good rest. I want to make way into family in particular. Always think we feel well and perform. And all the president past campus interns, some good friends, some people that all talk really miss. But I can talk about that for 20 minutes. I want to talk more about specific things. And I want to just say that this last four years, I basically linked and got here. I remember coming out, I remember being a freshman. It's just, it's gotten like that. And it, my fiance kind of stole my mother by 40 ways, but I was going to bring it up again. And basically, you say that you've heard every day or every Wednesday at the grass where there's the flowers fade away. But the word of the Lord stands forever. And it really is true. Take it from me, obviously here. And I'm sure you guys remember high school. It really does. You blink and you're going to wake up and you're going to be bleeding here. And then you're going to blink again and you're going to be on your deathbed. It's a serious mess. And what I'm trying to say is it's like the good stuff and the bad stuff that you feel like it's going to last forever, but it's really not. And I would encourage you to work towards something that will last forever and work towards the kingdom of God. Because when you do blink and wake up and realize that all the time is gone, you're only going to have one thing to look forward to. And that's going to be the. I'm sorry. I'm tougher than I am right now. I promise I'm tougher than I am. I'm going to miss this place a lot. But even though you wake up and all this is going to be gone, the only thing you have to rejoice in is the gospel. And I would just encourage you whether you're Christian or not. If you're a Christian, just remember that. And treat it like it really does matter to you. If you're not a Christian, I would encourage you to look for it. And I would encourage you to look forward to it. And for that, I knew very, very thankful that Baylor has been a huge blood saying in that way. But with that, I'll take you to some challenges and that Baylor presented new things in my faith that I didn't realize before. I think sometimes since we have the blood saying of being in such a Christian school, we get a lot of people that have been Christians since they were born, right? Which is awesome. That's nice to rejoice in. And then it's also nice to rejoice in it. You know, you're not. But I mean, with that comes this expectation of performing here Christians. And now what do you do? And you have to do things. And coming here in RUF, where you just always reminded me that the Christian of 10 years means the gospel just as much as the Christian of 10 minutes. Right? We need to hear the gospel over and over again and rest in that. And that's something I've been incredibly thankful for. You know, feeling like I have to do all these things and yet we should walk in the way that God wants us to. But coming back at the end of the day, it is grace for us. And in fact, the gospel is new to the rest of the morning. So that is just one of a thousand things that I'm very, very thankful for. But truly, y'all, this has been like the most important role of yourself. Thank you. [APPLAUSE] Wait, I don't know how to do this. This guy's scary. Hi, y'all. So my name is Phil. You know, I'm a full servant. Phil brings back there. My boy. I have the blessing of being involved with RUF from the very minute I step on this campus. I met Wei and Olivia and great-grandma. They came in my room, met me, wanted to get to know me. And just ever since then, I've been able to dive in here. This has been one of my main spheres of community in what has been a really, really important period of my life. I'm looking around this room. I see so many faces with people who are dear friends to me. So just, yeah, this is where you can find those people. I've got to go to four fall conferences, two summer conferences. Here's so many hours of reaching Wei. So much more with you. [LAUGHTER] That trivia nights, checks dot, movie nights, crease moods, just so many fun things, fun memories. 20-hour rail trips from LinkedIn and DC. Don't do it. [LAUGHTER] But I've loved diving in here. I've been going through a lot of this so many times. So I have so many people to thank the three guy who turned from paddlewals to the quad, Ben Beer, Katie, Justin and Graham. Thank you all for reporting in to me and seeking me out. Thank you, Lauren and Olivia, for just your service to me, this ministry, for serving this place so well. Brother Ferds, Wei, Amy, Miles Davis, Lizzie. Yeah, y'all love me so well these past few years. And just thank you. I went so much with you. Oh, here comes Wei. Thank you for your preaching, your teaching, your friendship. You have a way of communicating good news that you're just kidding. And God has used you to reach me in perfect places. If you've been here for any period of time, you've probably found all this super repetitive. We sing some songs, we reach some passages from the Bible ways. Someone almost pretends to serve me in about Jesus and God's grace. You know, you always eat only anything, right? But what I want you to know is that's the point. That's the point that you need to hear it over and over again. Because Jesus has seen the most shameful parts of you that you and I don't want everyone to know about. And he loves me so much. And so this place, or you have this about him, it's about his love for you. And if you're a good community, you can find it here. If you're a committed Christian, or you're a prefer of skeptic, if you're spiritual and not religious, if you don't know what you are, please know that you're welcome here. Or you have this for you wherever you want. So that's what it's about. That's what it's meant to me. And that's how God is going to work in that life. Thank you. [APPLAUSE] [ Applause ] [ Inaudible Remark ] My name is May. I'm a senior in the graduating. And I do have, I do have a question of peace. I'm a hearing on Wednesdays with a therapist of where I'm emotionally, not on my day went. I come to people who are excited to meet and have me hear how my day was. The gospel reaches us no matter where we're at. And so God uses different reasons, especially by you guys, to share that picture to us. And to reaffirm the fact that his mercy very normal, regardless of what I've done, how I feel, regardless of how your friends back to him, or your greats hour, all of these things that we have these expectations of. It's all so small compared to Jesus' love for you, for me, and what is not for us. I think just knowing that there's a place at Baylor is going to continue to reach that to people leaves me confident as I live here, knowing that God's stopping me his way. He's going to use interns, he's going to use you guys, to please share that good news into the store. Hope and joy in progress. Thank you all. (Applause)