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The assembly begins with check in for registered attendees beginning at 8:15 a.m. Friday, May 3, and is in session until 6:15 p.m. Saturday's session opens with check-in at 8 a.m. and is expected to adjourn by 5:30 p.m. 

Regular registration (through April 2) is $200 per person.

All attendees must register in advance by the April 2 deadline. There will be no walk-in registrations.

 View all important dates and deadlines.

For more information contact:

Ms. Carrie Schwab, assembly coordinator, cschwab@sepa.org

Ms. Cynta Outterbridge, registrar, coutterbridge@sepa.org

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Volunteer With The Assembly

Help needed: worship assistants, setup people (Thursday day and Saturday afternoon), and registration table assistants.

Volunteers are ESSENTIAL to making Synod Assembly successful, especially this year! We will need more volunteers than ever to help make a great experience for what could be over 600 people! We need many volunteers to assist with the check-in, hand out voting devices and serve as communion assistants, ushers, hospitality helpers, voting pages, ingathering volunteers, technology assistants and more. Can you help in any of these areas? You don’t have to be a voting member to volunteer. Fill out the form below to let us know what areas you are interested in and what days you would be available.

Calling all youth!

• Do you need to complete service hours? 
• Do you need a great letter of recommendation for a job, college or trade school? 
• Do you want to be a leader as we elect a new Bishop?
• Do you want to meet new youth from all over the synod?

We need you - a group of great young leaders at Synod Assembly this May 3-4. You will help us with various roles during the Bishop election process and assembly. That night, you are invited to a SEPA Youth overnight at Advent, Harleysville. Then, we're back to the work of Synod Assembly.

Please contact Pr. Skyle Rea for more information and to sign up!

Thursday, April 24, 7 p.m.

Treasurer Janet Neff, CPA, and finance committee chair Pia Graham will host a pre-assembly Zoom meeting to review synod financial reports and the proposed 2025 budget. All voting members are strongly encouraged to attend. This will be a time to learn and ask questions of our fiscal leaders. 

New: Watch Discernment Gathering video

We are now in the second, discernment phase, in which the people of the synod have time to review the mission profile and participate in prayerful conversation and reflection on the gifts and capabilities needed in our next bishop.

In the pre-identification process, you are invited to identify individuals that you believe fit the leadership needs and missional context of our synod. 

At the upcoming Synod Assembly we will be electing a Bishop, which will take place by Ecclesiastical Ballot, and follow a distinct process.

In addition, we will elect leaders to serve on the Synod Council, the Consultation Committee, and the Committee on Discipline. We also need to select Voting Members to the 2025 Churchwide Assembly (July 28 – August 2, 2025, in Phoenix, AZ).



Deadline for nominations is

March 30, 2024

The 2024 LWR Ingathering will take place at the Synod Assembly at Franconia Mennonite Church on Saturday, May 4th, 2024. Congregations are invited and encouraged to bring quilts and kits (personal care, baby care, school and fabric kits) to load on the truck between 7:30 – 8:30 a.m., which is before the morning worship service.

Click the link below for more information and kit instructions.