Previous Assemblies

Below are listed all the assemblies Mennonite World Conference has celebrated until now:

A Church service with people singing on stage and the crowd raising their hands

Following Jesus together across barriers

President: J. Nelson Kraybill (USA)

Salatiga, Indonesia

2022: 5–10 July







Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania

Walking with God

President: Danisa Ndlovu (Zimbabwe)

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA

2015: 21–26 July







Asunción,
Paraguay

Come together in the way of Jesus Christ

President: Nancy Heisey (USA)

Asunción, Paraguay

2009: 14–29 July







Bulawayo,
Zimbabwe

Sharing gifts in suffering and in joy

President: Mesach Krisetya (Indonesia)

Bulawayo, Zimbabwe

2003: 11–17 August







Hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches

President: Raúl García (Argentina)

Calcutta, India

1997: 6–12 January







Witnessing to Christ in today’s world

President: Ross T. Bender (USA)

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

1990: 24–29 July







“God’s people serve in hope”

President: Charles Christano (Indonesia)

Strasbourg, France

1984: 24–29 July







The Kingdom of God in a changing world

President: Million Belete (Ethiopia)

Wichita, Kansas, USA

1978: 25–30 July







Jesus Christ reconciles

President: Erland Waltner (USA)

Curitiba, Brazil

1972: 18–23 July







The witness of the Holy Spirit

President: Erland Waltner (USA)

Amsterdam, Netherlands

1967: 23–30 July







The Lordship of Christ

President: Harold S. Bender (USA)

Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

1962: 1–7 August







The gospel of Jesus Christ in the world

President: Harold S. Bender (USA)

Karlsruhe, Germany

1957: 10–16 August







“The church of Christ and her commission”

President: Harold S. Bender (USA)

Basel & Zurich, Switzerland

1952: 10–15 August







Brotherhood and reconciliation

President: Harold S. Bender (USA)

Goshen, Indiana & Newton, Kansas, USA

1948: 3–10 August







400th anniversary of Menno Simons’ conversion and baptism

President: Christian Neff (Germany)

Amsterdam, Elspeet & Witmarsum, Netherlands

1936: 29 June–3 July







Mennonite relief work, Mennonites in the USSR

President: Christian Neff (Germany)

Free City of Danzig (now part of Poland)

1930: 31 August–3 September







Commemoration of the anniversary of the founding of Anabaptism

President: Christian Neff (Germany)

Basel, Switzerland

1925: 13-16 June