Ni hao, Salve, Hola, et Bonjour! This week Downtown Campus students joined together for the annual Global Language Chapel.
Eighteen students volunteered to share a reading or prayer in a language they can speak or understand at home and then all students had a chance to hear or say some of the languages that they are studying in school. We heard Russian, Ukrainian, French, Arabic, Hindi, German, Spanish, Mandarin, Latin, Turkish, and Assyrian and watched The Lord's Prayer in ASL.
Ana '26 and Mara '26 Dubacher led the meditation in Spanish and English and shared how they identify with three cultures because of their unique upbringing and family history. They described that even though they moved around the world before settling in the Lehigh Valley three years ago, one thing that made it easier to make new friends was the commonality of soccer around the world.
Moravian Academy students are fortunate that the school values the gift of learning another language; students are ultimately learning to appreciate and respect cultures other than their own. Although students speak different languages, come from different families, celebrate different holidays, and practice a second or third language from different teachers, they were all gathered at chapel together as one.