Dear YPM Friends,
Sending warm greetings from Mexico on this 2025 Independence Day. May you celebrate with gratitude, joy, and hope for a future filled with freedom and justice. Today we are proud to celebrate the graduation ceremony of the first high school graduating class of iYPM. It was a beautiful day with graduation ceremony and dinner for the students and their parents, hosted by a local municipal official at a restaurant in Cancun. Please join us in celebrating and honoring both the hard work these students have already achieved and the future opportunities that they are now open to explore.
Happy 4th of July!
FAREWELL SPEECH TO THE FIRST HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATING CLASS OF THE YUCATÁN PENINSULA MISSION INSTITUTE
By Wilian Cen, Representative of the Founding Association (YPM)
Good afternoon everyone:
Dear students, esteemed families, teachers, authorities, and all members of our community,
Today we are witnessing a historic moment. We gather to say farewell with pride and gratitude to the first high school graduating class of the Yucatán Peninsula Mission Institute. You are not just concluding an academic stage—you are launching a legacy. You are paving the way and leaving an indelible mark on this institution that is just beginning to bloom.
As the representative of the founding association, I want to share what this milestone means to us. From the very beginning of this project, our dream was to open a high school and eventually a university that would respond to God’s calling to educate with excellence, purpose, and Christian values. However, things don’t always go as planned. Due to life’s circumstances, it wasn’t until three years ago that we were able to formally begin this high school journey.
And now, seeing you here today, we can confidently say: we are on the right path. Although the educational model is still developing, you have been an essential part of building it. Through your experiences, challenges, and accomplishments, you have confirmed to us that this effort is worthwhile. What is now a growing structure will one day be a strong and established institution—and you will proudly say, “I was there at the beginning.”
This institute was born out of a dream—not just to educate brilliant minds, but to shape hearts committed to goodness, service, and truth. Seeing you arrive at this point fills us with hope. You are the first fruits of that dream, and with that comes a beautiful responsibility: to be light wherever you go, to be living examples of what this institution stands for, and never forget who you are or where you came from.
Dear graduates, what we celebrate today is not an ending—it is the beginning of new journeys. Journeys full of decisions, challenges, and opportunities. As you walk forward, take three essential things with you:
- Your faith, because in a changing world, faith in God will be your secure anchor.
- Your identity, because you have been formed with values, principles, and purpose.
- Your gratitude, because many walked with you to make this moment possible: parents, teachers, mentors, and friends.
I sincerely thank each family who trusted in this emerging project. I recall one of our first meetings where we clearly expressed that you, the parents, and we, as an institution, are partners in the formation of your children. We share the same desire to guide them toward a life of purpose, values, and responsibility.
Our goals are not opposed to your hopes—they are aligned. And as we support each other and give our best, the fruits will come. Today we celebrate together, just as we envisioned and committed to from the start.
To those who see a future in this project, know that the doors of our university are open. And to those who are pursuing other paths, I sincerely wish you success, clarity, and blessing.
To the parents of our graduates, congratulations and thank you for your trust. To our teachers, thank you for your dedication and patience. To our directors and staff, thank you for your consistency. And above all, we thank God, who has sustained this work from the very beginning.
Let me close with the words of Philippians 1:6:
“Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.”
Walk with hope. Live with purpose. And never forget: you are not just graduating today—you are making history.
Congratulations, and may God bless you always!
