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📖 Student Spotlight
Meet one of our incredible students studying at Western Seminary!
Anne Valentine
📍Greenwich, CT
🎓 MA (Biblical and Theological Studies)
⛪ Ministry role: Worship Leader and Coordinator
✏️ Favorite class: Understanding Biblical Theology with Dr. Todd Miles
📖 Student Spotlight
Meet one of our amazing students! Elijah is also on staff at Western as an academic advisor and cohort coordinator.
Elijah Thomas
📍Corvallis, OR
🎓 MA (Biblical and Theological Studies)
✏️ Favorite class: ML506: Ministerial Ethics
📖 Student Spotlight
Meet one of our incredible students studying at Western Seminary!
Ariana Jaquith
📍Portland, OR
🎓 Master of Arts in Counseling
⛪ Ministry role: Staff at a Bible college
✏️ Favorite class: CN501
📖 Student Spotlight
Meet one of our incredible students studying at Western Seminary! Leah is also on staff as an admissions counselor.
Leah Kate King
📍Portland, Oregon
🎓 PhD In Intercultural Education
✏️ Favorite class: Contextualization & Orality in Intercultural Education
📖 Student Spotlight
Meet one of our incredible students studying at Western Seminary!
Jonathan Fruh
📍Tulsa, Oklahoma
🎓 Masters in Applied Biblical Leadership
⛪ Ministry role: Pastor
✏️ Favorite class: Theology
📖 Student Spotlight
Meet one of our incredible students studying at Western Seminary!
Alycia Geiger
📍Cowichan Valley, Vancouver Island Canada
🎓 MABL cohort model and MABTS
⛪ Ministry role: Pastor of Youth and Young Adults
📖 Student Spotlight
Meet one of our incredible students studying at Western Seminary! Olya is also on staff at Western as one of our senior academic advisors.
Olya Ostapiuk
📍Portland, OR
🎓 PhD in Intercultural Education
✏️ Favorite class: Methodology & Research
We are still accepting applications for the Doctor of Ministry program launching in January 2027! Learn more about the program: westernseminary.edu/academic…
📖 Student Spotlight
Meet one of our incredible students studying at Western Seminary!
Philip Wiggins
📍Sacramento, CA
🎓 MDiv
⛪ Ministry role: Church Partnerships - World Relief Sacramento
✏️ Favorite class: TH502: Theology II
"The Mighty One, God the LORD, speaks and summons the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting. Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth."
Psalm 50:1–2
"We did it!"
No student gets to graduation day alone. Thank you to the fellow students, friends, family, faculty, and mentors who supported this year's class of graduates throughout their time at Western Seminary and beyond.
📸 A look back at last weekend's commencement ceremony 🎓💐 🎉
Congratulations to all of our 2026 graduates! It was a joy to celebrate all of your hard work, academic achievements, and spiritual growth throughout the journey towards graduation day.
In his latest article for Transform, Professor Daniel K. Eng, PhD, helps us consider Andrew's example of humble service that furthers God's mission and connects others to Christ.
Read the full article: transform.westernseminary.ed…
📖 📝It's the last week of spring classes before commencement week! Good luck to all of our students taking exams and writing final papers. You got this!
"The resurrection assures us that God is at work even in places that seem marked by loss or finality. What appeared to be the end on Good Friday became, through God’s power, the beginning of something entirely new." -President Chuck Conniry, PhD
He is risen, He is risen indeed! xitter.cf/WesternSeminary/status…
"He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed. For you were straying like sheep, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls."
1 Peter 2:24–25 xitter.cf/WesternSeminary/status…
📚 We have newly designed bookmarks! Next time you're on our Portland campus, stop by the Cline-Tunnell Library to pick one up!
Meet one of our incredible global students!
✏️ Name: Sean Gasperetti
📍 Location: Marysville, WA
🎓 Degree Program: MABL
⛪ Ministry Role: Lead Pastor, Bright City Church
📘 Favorite Class So Far: BL591 Applied Integrative Biblical Literature: Genesis to Song of Solomon
