The Gregory L. Waybright Student Life Center

The four schools of Trinity each began with a mission. Though it has been expressed in varied words or diverse phrases through the years, the mission remains unchanged: educate students for faithful participation in the breadth of God’s redemptive work. In 2000, in accordance with this mission, the leaders of Trinity developed a vision for what Trinity’s Deerfield campus would look like in the future. They crafted the Master Plan to formalize that vision. Architectural plans were rendered, two buildings built, and our campus changed.

Trinity is now on the cusp of another change as construction begins on The Gregory L. Waybright Student Life Center. Each of the buildings that have gone before have had their own purposes: the H.G. Rodine Global Ministry Building provided technology-smart classrooms, offices for a growing faculty, and a reception hall for more than two hundred students, faculty, staff, or community members; Trinity Hall provided quality housing for both married and unmarried undergraduate students. The Waybright Center, the third building under the Master Plan, tackles another pressing need: community space for the entire university. Though it began with the desire for a new dining hall, it has developed into Trinity’s first universitywide building, serving students of all sorts. The Waybright Center will be a place for gathering and for intermixing; it will centrally house all university services for students, as well as student groups; it will provide space for discipleship, students working together on projects, interdepartmental staff meetings, and large alumni gatherings. A building such as this, located at the northern edge of what will be the central green of campus, will become the heart of campus life.

Construction Updates

as of Sept 15, 2009