By Dave DiPino
The Delray Beach Sister Cities Student Exchange Program will be sending qualified students to Miyazu, Japan in June. Students in the program have been in training sessions for two years before their trip. Tony Durante, the director of discipleship at Trinity Lutheran Church & School in Delray Beach,
will once again travel to Japan with the students.
The students selected are Chelsea Brandt of Boynton Beach who attends American Heritage School; Sofia Ellingsworth of Delray Beach who attends Boca Raton High School; and Atlantic Community High School students: Matthew Feldman of Wellington; Matthew Kondziela of Boynton Beach; Jacqueline Lowell of Delray Beach; Danielle Trubow of Boca Raton and Bobby Weil of Boynton Beach.
Durante has taught regular weekly sessions and workshops with emphasis on Japanese culture, language, protocol, as well as sessions about city government.
He is also a native of Delray Beach who spent two years living and teaching in Japan as a Christian missionary. Durante speaks fluent Japanese.

For more information about the Student Exchange program call Tony Durante at 561-278-1737 or e-mail Tony Durante at tdurante@trinitydelray.org