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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Advisory council bridges denominations, age and gender
Six members have been appointed to the National Advisory Council to assist MWC staff and volunteers in planning the worldwide event.
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Together, we have a responsibility!
Swahili will be an official language of Assembly 18 Ubuntu – I am because we are. “This African philosophy is very important to understand when we are gathering as a big community of Anabaptists in Arusha. There is no way I can manage anything myself.…
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Picturing the 2028 Assembly
The 2028 Assembly logo was created through collaboration from two designers in Tanzania, Zakaria Bunini from KMK(T) and Jonathan Pharas from KMT, and Irma Sulistyorini, the MWC graphic designer. Tanzanian church leaders approved the design which includes several key elements: Updated 2026-07-13: designer’s name corrected
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Tanzanian Mennonites invite the world to Arusha
The Executive Committee of Mennonite World Conference accepted the invitation from the member churches of Tanzania to host the global Assembly 18 in 2028. The five-day gathering of Anabaptists from around the world will take place in the first two weeks of June. The theme is being finalized.
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Unity you can hear
Worshipping together, particularly singing together, is often cited as a highlight of Mennonite World Conference Assemblies. After all, there is nothing quite like singing in a gathering of several thousand people as siblings in Christ. Even when not everyone speaks the same language, music has a…
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A blessing, not a burden
“Attending an Assembly is a wonderful experience. There’s an opportunity to see another part of the world, and to meet so many people. We learn new ways of working together; we adjust for things we hadn’t planned for; and most importantly, we build relationships,” says…
