Vashty Segovia Santos – Loveland, Colorado … Campion Academy, HMS Richards Adventist School, and the Campion Seventh-day Adventist Church in Loveland, Colorado, came together to celebrate the diversity in our community with an International Sabbath, February 24.
Students from both schools started off the program by dressing up in clothes from the countries they were representing and carrying flags from all over the world. The students greeted the church in different languages.
Afterwards, the praise team presented songs in other languages that had different translations. They sang songs in English, Portuguese, Spanish, and Indonesian. Natan Fogaca, Campion Academy student, commented, “It was a good experience, I got to sing and praise God.”
Students shared special performances, scriptures, and prayers in different languages. Campion Academy students Julia Santiago and Beatriz Moraes sang a special music called “Alem” in Portuguese.
Moraes shared, “This song is important to me because it shows me that I always have someone I can trust and always do what’s best for me. God showed me in this song that he is always with us, even in the storms. Believe and trust in Him that he will do what is best.”
“It was beautiful to see so many countries represented throughout the church,” Euan O’Keeffe, Campion Academy student, expressed, “It really painted the church as what it should be—a great unifier, unrelated to language and culture.”
—Vashty Segovia Santos, Campion Student News Team. Photos supplied.
