Events

CRU Serve is the largest day of community service at UMHB. Each Welcome Week, over 500 students serve in a variety of capacities at nearly 20 sites in the surrounding Belton community. This is a wonderful way  to introduce incoming students to the importance of service as defined in the University mission statement.

Reaching Out is a campus-wide day of service that takes place each semester. The Student Government Association arranges service sites at a variety of agencies in the Temple, Belton, and surrounding community. Students, faculty, staff, and administration come together to serve their community through projects including yard-work, visiting with the elderly, paint/fixing up houses, and so on.

CRU Play Houses is an incredible way for UMHB students to connect with local families. Each year UMHB adopts a number of families that have at least one parent deployed in the military. Student groups sign-up to adopt a family, then the UMHB students meet with the families to determine the overall design of the play house. On the final night, the children get to paint their new play house alongside the UMHB students.

Sole 2 Soul was a vision of student-athletes beginning in 2009. Their hope was to raise awareness of child living in poverty all around the world. Each spring, UMHB students are asked to go a day without their shoes in order to catch a glimpse of what these children live without on a daily basis. Today, a partnership between the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, the Student Government Association, and Hope for the Hungry,  help raise funds for two orphanages in Haiti. Funds are used to purchase shoes and school supplies for the children.