Intercultural and Global Engagement Co-curricular Initiatives and Impact

Within Student Life, several departments have responsibility for implementing programs and overseeing initiatives that fulfilling the college’s diversity and global engagement commitment. Read more below about student organizations that support cultural groups on campus, outreach groups to our neighbors near and far, and our chapel program which provides a rich array of worship opportunities.

Intercultural Programs

Intercultural Programs office (ICP) supports and develops students of color and international students by providing academic, spiritual, vocational, cultural, social and personal resources while engaging the broader campus community with forums and programs related to race, ethnicity and culture.

Ministries and Outreach

Campus Life provides advisory support and training for three organizations that do ministry and outreach in local settings and abroad: Potter's Clay, Urban Initiative and Emmaus Road.

Chapel

Chapel is our community's "homeroom," where we regularly gather our diverse community together to experience our unity in Christ. Through exposure to different styles of worship, and listening to a broad variety of voices from different contexts, we learn to appreciate different forms and traditions of worship, and benefit from listening to the broad collective voice of the global Church.

Links to particular chapels

David Bailey

Sept 27, 2019

David Bailey, the founding director of Arrabon, speaks about how Christians can be a reconciling community in many different contexts.

Jan 17, 2020

David Bailey, the founding director of Arrabon, gives a brief overview of the Bible, focusing on the kingdom of God as a just society that includes and cares for those on the margins.

Scott Lisea

Oct 25, 2019

Scott Lisea, Westmont’s campus pastor, speaks about lament and how our culture often dismisses it. He then explores lament in the context of racism in America.

Bryan Loritts

Oct 1, 2018

Bryan Loritts, lead pastor of Abundant Life Church in Silicon Valley, speaks about how Hosea and Gomer’s relationship gives us a picture of God’s unrelenting love for us and how we should pursue “strange” relationships with people who are unlike us.

Sept 4, 2019

Bryan Loritts, lead pastor of Abundant Life Church in Silicon Valley, speaks about Ruth and Boaz and how God’s providence interacts with our decisions no matter who we are.

The Rev. Dr. David N. Moore, Jr.

Feb 6, 2019

The Rev. Dr. David N. Moore, Jr., an ecumenical teacher and author, speaks about the history of lynching—a form of terrorism usually committed by people who were nominally Christian—in the United States.

Sept 20, 2019

The Rev. Dr. David N. Moore, Jr., an ecumenical teacher and author, speaks about resisting in love in order to bring about change and the “arc of the moral universe.”

Rich Reliford

Nov 13, 2019

Rich Reliford, the Los Angeles Director for Team World Vision and founder of Keeping it R.E.Y.A.L., encourages the next generation to embrace the rebellious mission to create revival and oneness in the church.

Angel Ruiz

Nov 6, 2019

Angel Ruiz, Young Life vice president of Los Angeles, speaks about the difference between diversity and inclusion, finishing by giving messages to specific groups in the audience.