• How to make friends and pray for people – online

    11 tips for using the Assembly Hub: You can meet brothers and sisters within the wide diversity of the Mennonite World Conference family in the Assembly Hub.

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    How to make friends and pray for people – online
  • How the Assembly Hub crosses barriers of space

    “It’s not the planned things that change us; it’s the encounters,” says Benjamin Isaak-Krauß, a two-time Assembly participant from Germany. Online participants find space for those barrier-crossing encounter at Mennonite World Conference’s event in the Assembly Hub.  Event programs can be inspiring; however, the moments that make life change are often spontaneous connections over food…

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    How the Assembly Hub crosses barriers of space
  • Assembly strives to lower carbon footprint

    “Gathering” has become a bigger idea. Two years of changing pandemic restrictions taught people to be together virtually. Mennonite World Conference’s global Assembly benefits from this Zoom savvy. MWC’s event is open for anyone around the world to register to participate in these five days of fellowship from wherever they are. Additionally, recordings on the…

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    Assembly strives to lower carbon footprint
  • Youth voices need to be heard

    GYS: Life in the Spirit: Learn, Serve, Worship  “What a unique opportunity to ask, observe and listen more than we speak,” says Christen Kong, Mennonite Church Canada delegate for the Global Youth Summit (GYS), 1-4 July 2022 in Salatiga, Indonesia.   “I am looking forward to meeting other Mennonite youth and documenting the ways they live…

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    Youth voices need to be heard
  • Join Assembly online

    Host a watch party – for your Sunday service or at any other time Assembly Hub Poster How to register Speaker handout (all) Workshops Bulletin announcements Watch live? See time charts Ambassador kit Offering handout USA Canada You can access all content until 30 September 2022 as long as you register.  

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    Join Assembly online
  • Attend all online workshops

    Pray, learn and dialogue together at Assembly “What’s exciting and inspiring about the workshops and meetings at MWC’s Assembly are the learnings that one receives from hearing new experiences and different teachings for following Jesus Christ,” says Pablo Stucky, Mennonite World Conference regional representative for Latin America.   At an in-person event, registrants must choose one…

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    Attend all online workshops
  • A multisensory experience of other countries

    “The entire assembly is an opportunity to meet people from other countries,” says Jessica Mondal, coordinator of the Global Church Village. “But at the Global Church Village, we can see, touch and taste things from other cultures.”  Displays and presentations teach about cultural and ecclesial practices in other regions. Storytelling puts faces to stories the…

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    A multisensory experience of other countries
  • Bring the world to your congregation this July

    “Do I participate alone at my computer, or will groups emerge to share what is typically a communal event?” Ray Brubacher, former event planner for Mennonite World Conference, didn’t wait until July to decide. Unable to attend the event in person, he is organizing watch parties for Anabaptist-Mennonites in his region to attend the hybrid…

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    Bring the world to your congregation this July
  • What’s happening in Assembly worship services?

    Everyone can travel to Indonesia for this year’s Mennonite World Conference hybrid Assembly. Around 1250 will do so in person, while thousands of others will visit Indonesia through screens.  Through a daily “Panorama Indonesia” presentation, participants follow Jesus across barriers by sampling the multifaceted ministry activities of three host synods.*  Each Assembly plenary session opens…

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    What’s happening in Assembly worship services?
  • Assembly participants on-site nearly doubled

    The Indonesian Assembly just got a little bit larger. The National Advisory Committee for Assembly 17 and the executive committee of MWC have decided to raise attendance numbers for the gathering in Indonesia to 1250. COVID-19 cases in Indonesia remain low so the Indonesian government has lifted quarantine restrictions for travellers. “We would love to…

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    Assembly participants on-site nearly doubled
  • Sharing a new and unified language

    “We come together throughout the world to sing and to make music together,” says Benjamin Bergey, Assembly 17 music coordinator. With attendees from the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia, “What we have [at Assembly] is an opportunity to reframe what is important about music.”  At this hybrid Assembly, participants who have never been able to…

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    Sharing a new and unified language
  • Learning together and apart

    Nobody anticipated the pandemic barrier that would challenge Assembly plans when they chose the theme “Following Jesus together across barriers”.  One year later than the original date, the 17th Assembly of Mennonite World Conference takes place 5-10 July 2022 with 700 participants on-site in Indonesia and thousands of online registrants across the globe, live-streaming sessions…

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    Learning together and apart