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2025 Commencement
The Senior Class Commencement will take place May 31 at 10 a.m. in the Calvin & Janet High Fine Arts Center.
Commencement will be preceded by a Senior Class Dedication service Friday night, May 30 at 7 p.m., in the same location. The student speakers are Jared Bowman, Rachel Landes, and Simeon Spurrier.
Commencement Speaker
Andrés Prins, Consultant and Peace Ambassador at Eastern Mennonite Mission, will deliver the commencement address to the class of 2025. He was born in Canada of Dutch parents, spent his childhood and youth in Uruguay, giving his life to Christ when he was 8 years old. As a young adult he became convinced God was calling him to be a peace ambassador of Jesus Christ among Muslims, which led him to obtain a Master’s degree in Teaching English as a Foreign Language from the American University of Cairo (Egypt, 1986). He has worked as a teacher of English and Spanish, as an interpreter-translator (MWC, Operation World, etc.), and as an EMM-related consultant on Christian-Muslim relations, based principally in North Africa since first moving there almost 40 years ago. He is married to Angelica, from Paraguay; their one daughter graduated from LM in 2015.
Class Verse Related to Theme of the Year: Building Bridges of Peace
Matthew 5:43-44: Love your enemies; pray for persecutors.
The Class of 2025 is led by the Senior Class Committee: Leah Friesen, President; Owen Esch and Luis Santos, Vice Presidents; Adelyn King, Treasurer Zoey Groff, Secretary.
Class of 2025
Msafiri Amisi
Kayden M. Beidler
Ethan Bell
Jared R. Bowman
Charlotte Buckwalter
Jocelyn A. Burkholder
Mara K. Carlson
Fiker S. Chaka
Kidus Chaka
Lillian DiFilippo
Kai Esbenshade
Owen D. Esch
Leah Grace Friesen
Zoey Lynn Groff
Haydn John Gruno
Jackson P. Harbaugh
Eli Heinsey
Keifer Hertzog
Lena Linder Hess
Seth M. Hoover
Olivia Hutchinson
Azaylia-Nihyari Jenkins
Adelyn Elizabeth King
Brady C. Kinney
Dakoda Kraenbring
Rachel S. Landes
David M. B. Lapp
Peter Lewin
Jordan Lilly
Pedro J. Lucas-Towers
Nikolas E. Martiny
Lukas Muenstermann
Eli A. Newman
Barak Okanya
Angel Pena
Edward Pena
Miguel Pena
Westin Rhine
Bryce Rimer
Elizabeth Joyce Ripperger
Lindsey Ann Rychener
Luis Alberto Santos III
Zheyu Shi
Simeon C. Spurrier
Lukas Stauffer
Tri Duc Vu
Hope Juliet Wanjiku
Caleb J. Weire
Lory Yang
Barkot Yohannes
Gabriella Zewdu Tezra
No Tickets Required – This year you do not need tickets to attend graduation. All students are welcome to invite family and friends, and we are not limiting the number of tickets per student and family this year.
You also have the opportunity to watch the Livestream of this event – click the button below on the day of to watch along with us from anywhere!
