What is Assembly?
Mennonite World Conference Assemblies are reunions of the Anabaptist-Mennonite family worldwide and take place every six years.
We look forward to our next Assembly in June 2028 in Arusha, Tanzania.
Stories about Assembly
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Praising in painful times
With mercy, the Holy Spirit irons our hearts, says Japanese pastor By Anna Groff Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA – Yukari Kaga, a pastor from Japan, admitted Peter’s praise in his letter to the early church seems “a little strange to me.” “How can we praise the…
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Speakers share doubts from their settings, journeys
Walking in doubt and conviction in second Assembly plenary Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA – Three speakers, one each from Kenya, Canada and Ethiopia, shared stories of doubt in their local contexts at Assembly 16’s morning worship 22 July 2015. “We are learning, in this wonderful global…
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MWC PA 2015 opens with celebration, call for unity
Assembly 16: PA 2015 International attendees urged to find unity in diversity while “walking with God” César García of Colombia, MWC general secretary, preached the opening sermon on the Assembly theme, “Walking with God.” MWC Vice President Janet Plenert translated. Photo by Jonathan Charles Harrisburg,…
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Living Out Peace: My Gift
Mennonite World Conference’s Global Youth Summit is celebrating the gifts that each young adult brings to the global church. One gift is the encouragement and model of Conscientious Objection: refusing mandatory military service in order to follow Jesus’ way of peace. GYS participants celebrated COs…
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Global Youth Summit Day 1
My friend Maria first told me about a Global Youth Summit, a 3-day gathering of Mennonite youth from around the world before Mennonite World Conference. I signed up, excited to meet new people from around the world. Since Korea is a pretty homogenous, I get…
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A Gift of Peace from the Persecuted
As GYS 2015 discusses gifts and calling, a participant shared his church’s story of giving gifts of peace in response to persecution that affected more than 50,000 Christians in his village. Amit Andrew Roul is a young leader in a rural Brethren in Christ (BIC)…
