Service is how we give back to the communities that have given so much to us.
Weekly Service Opportunities
Watch the video below to hear about all the service opportunities AED offers to our members for the Fall 2024 semester.
Get involved in one of our weekly service opportunities.
For more information, contact the service chair listed below the opportunity you are interested in.
Waco Family Medicine
The Waco Family Medicine’s mission is to increase access to, and availability of high quality comprehensive primary and preventative health care for the vulnerable of the Heart of Texas and to provide an excellent educational, training, and research environment in the medical, dental, and behavioral health fields. As AED clinic volunteers, we assist WFM staff in checking in patients, shadowing physicians, and helping front desk staff in any way we can.
Mission Waco
The Mission Waco After School Youth Program is a rewarding service opportunity in which AED members will get to assist with fun and educational activities for Waco ISD students. As a volunteer, you will be able to foster meaningful relationships with these students and make a positive impact on their lives!
The Salvation Army
Salvation Army volunteers are responsible for packaging meals into take-out containers and/or pack bags with drinks and snacks. This is an extremely helpful task for the Waco Community and helps out the Salvation Army greatly. Our work directly helps those facing food insecurity in our local community. Volunteers must wear a mask and we ask that students try to bring their own during the COVID-19 pandemic. There will be hairnets, gloves, aprons provided by the Salvation Army and it is required that volunteers adhere to our health and safety guidelines to minimize risk.
Baylor Buddies
Baylor Buddies is a mentoring organization that works to foster mentoring relationships between elementary and middle school-aged children at risk of dropping out of school in the Waco community. Weekly Mentoring typically involves spending 45 minutes to a hour with your Buddy at their school (at a mutually convenient time) to hang out doing anything play a board game or legos, making bracelets or even playing Roblox!
Loaves of Love
Loaves of Love’s mission is to provide underprivileged groups within Waco accessible meals with the help of Shepherd’s Heart Food Pantry. Loaves of Love creates an easy and meaningful way to support the Waco community and give back to those in need, all from Baylor’s campus. Volunteers will utilize an assembly-line method to assist in making PB&J sandwiches that are then bagged and later delivered to Shepherd’s Heart for distribution to local nursing homes and homeless shelters in the Waco area.
Shepherd’s Heart Food Pantry
Volunteers will be helping the pantry with distribution, packing carts, and loading cars with needed groceries for people in the local community. Shepherd’s Heart is one of the major sources of support for the hungry in Waco.
Ascension Providence
Ascension Texas Foundations’ mission is to commit themselves to delivering compassionate, personalized care to all, with special attention to persons living in poverty and those most vulnerable. The health ministry is dedicated to spiritually centered holistic care which sustains and improves the health of individuals and communities. Ascension Providence in Waco is excited to welcome members of Alpha Epsilon Delta, offering pre-health students the unique opportunity to immerse themselves within the clinical and hospital setting by providing non-clinical support to the staff, allowing the staff to spend more time with patients.
La Puerta
La Puerta is an organization that serves Waco's Hispanic population. Volunteers will have the rewarding opportunity to support these local Wacoans as they acclimate to life in the U.S and find community. Their mission statement is a call to "Acompañar, Abogar, Educar" or in English, "Accompany, Advocate, Educate".
AED members will volunteer at First Baptist Waco and assist in English as a Second Language classes, tutor permanent residents for the naturalization test, and conduct mock interviews preparing students for conversations with U.S. citizenship and immigration officers. There are also other classes offered such as sewing, health and cooking, and cosmetology that AED Members may also volunteer to help.
NO SPANISH LANGUAGE EXPERIENCE IS REQUIRED. In fact, this would be a great opportunity to get some initial exposure for those who are interested in becoming more familiar with the language. All AED members are welcome and encouraged to volunteer here.
If you would like to log hours from an outside service opportunity, please use the form below.
Upcoming Large Service Events
Sign-ups can be found in the weekly email or announcements.