West Texas A&M University is home to many clubs and organizations for students to be a part of; one club is the A to Z Bible Study Club. Through outreach and fostering community, the club has been formally recognized by the University.

Club President, Elizabeth Barclay gave details on what the club does and how their outreach is helping the community.

“The A to Z Bible Study Club is a Bible study club that was recently established on campus,” Barclay said. “We really encourage showing the love of God on campus through volunteer activities and through leadership and service, so those who are interested in studying prophecies in the Bible are those who can join, and we really want to share the love of God on campus through the love of a mother. We believe in God the mother through the Bible, so sharing the love and sacrifice is one of our core teachings, and we want to share that on campus as well.”

The outreach itself was planned in advance over a wide range of cities in Texas.

“Over the past four years, members of our organization have had the opportunity to attend and participate in forums at the United Nations, including the High-Level Political Forum and the Health Equity Forum, where young leaders engage in dialogue on global challenges and solutions. Most recently, ASEZ (Save the Earth from A to Z) organized a United Cleanup on Nov. 9 across five Texas cities: Denton, Tyler, Waco, Amarillo and Arlington.”

WT President, Dr. Walter Wendler recognized the club for their spirit of giving back to the community.

“So we are in participation with a group called ASEZ, which is a university youth group across the globe that takes steps to make a better world, whether that’s through community service, blood drives, or just showing good deeds in general,” Barclay said. “So we were able to host a cleanup in Amarillo at Thompson Park, but it was also a united cleanup effort with five other cities across Texas through Keep Texas Beautiful. So through this, after the cleanup initiative, we were able to meet with Dr. Wendler and receive a certificate of appreciation for our efforts to make the world a better place and through our civic engagement. It was a really amazing experience, of course, like I was very thankful to God that we were able to receive the certificate. We were all really moved by President Wendler. He really gave good words of encouragement for us to keep going.”

But the club was not only recognized by Wendler.

“We were also, through the cleanup, able to receive a certificate of recognition from the mayor of Amarillo, Mr. Cole Stanley. And he also was really pleased with our environmental stewardness, to continue to advance just awareness in general around this area in the environment.”

In regard to more outreach the club plans on pursuing in the future, Barclay added this.

“I would say it’s as it comes up,” Barclay said. “Whatever we like, whatever feels may be needed on campus, more, we would like to plan accordingly. So there’s not really a set, like schedule, or we’re going to do this or that just, yeah, whenever we feel like it’s needed. I know a lot of people on WT, it’s an agriculture campus. We’re all about, like, ‘how can we do better for the environment?’ So I think that also opens the door for many students as well.”

For contacting the club leadership, Barclay directs readers to Bufflink.

“So on the buff link there’s our advisor’s contact and also my contact there. They’re able to reach out whenever. All of our Bible studies are open schedule, because as college students, we get really busy, and we don’t know our schedule very well, so we keep it open schedule, and also wherever is convenient for students, yeah, just to make it as easy as possible.”