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Westminster Hosts Annual World Languages Speaker Series

Westminster Christian Academy recently hosted its annual World Languages Speaker Series to provide students with an educational experience and inform them about the diverse ethnic groups in St. Louis. Over 600 students were in attendance.

Nine guest speakers were invited to the event to share with Westminster students about the personal, political, and religious aspects of their distinctive cultures. Mi Ling, upper school Chinese instructor at Westminster, spoke about her experiences while living in China. Enisa Dedic, currently a counseling student at Covenant Theological Seminary, shared about her immigration to St. Louis from Bosnia, where she was a member of the Evangelical Union of Students.

Hossein Dastgah, retired Director of Campus Recreation at Saint Louis University, spoke with students about Iranian culture, sharing his experiences as a sports journalist, Olympic soccer and swim coach, and professor at the University of Tehran in Iran, before his family’s immigration to America.

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Six high school Nepali students of Gateway STEM High School were also guest speakers at the event, relating their experiences as refugees from Nepal.  

"The world is a very diverse and interesting place and worthy of study,” said Aaron Layton, director of diversity at Westminster. “It is our hope that our students would engage the diversity of our world through these speakers and eventually integrate their faith with a love for other cultures. My life was forever changed in high school when I met students from around the world, I pray the same for our students."

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