DIAKONIA Regional Assemblies

Typically every four years, in between the World Assemblies, each Region hosts a Regional Assembly.
(any information to help fill in gaps would be appreciated)

2023 DOTAC Regional Assembly
Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. Link to resources.
Theme: Gather at the River: Connect*Heal*Engage
Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Dates: August 14-18, 2023
‘We gathered on Dakota land near Bdote – the sacred land where two rivers meet, to connect as an ecumenical and international diaconal community in lament of a world of racism and ecological gloom, poverty and pandemic, war and uprooted people, to claim healing for ourselves, the planet and its people, and move towards holy joy in our work for justice’.
Powerpoint presentation and images from DOTAC 2023 Assembly here.
DOTAC website.

2023 DRAE Regional Assembly
Theme: Hope in a fragile world
Location: Neuendettelsau, Germany
Dates: 6-10 September 2023
Jeremiah 29:11 “For I know the plans I have for you” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper
you and not to harm you plans to give you hope and a future”.

2023 DAP Regional Assembly
Theme: God’s Agenda: Justice
‘The work of justice is a mandate of our God and a fundamental expression of our obedience as faithful disciples’. Deuteronomy 16:18-20
Location: Tagaytay, Philippines
Dates: 25-28th October 2023

2019 DOTAC Regional Assembly
Theme: ‘Respecting Covenant: Risking the journey of reconciliation’
Link to the schedule and resources
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Dates: August 14-20th, 2019
Speakers

2019 DRAE Regional Assembly
Theme: ‘For such a time as this’
Location: Queen Margaret University, Musselburgh, Scotland
Dates: 19th to 24th June 2015

2019 DAP Regional Assembly – Fiji.
Theme: Tides of Change
Location: Nadi, Fiji

2015 DOTAC Regional Assembly – Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil
Theme: Crumbs under the Table

2015 DAP Regional Assembly – Harris Memorial, Philippines

2015 DRAE Regional Assembly –
Theme: ‘The Eye of the Storm’.
Diaconia – the biblical challenge for the whole church in the world we live in’.
Date: July 2015
Location: Kongshaug, Norway
Speeches and Pictures can be found here:

2011 DOTAC Regional Assembly – Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA

2011 DRAE Regional Assembly – Moshi, Tanzania
Theme: Help from beyond the Mountain
Location: Moshi, Tanzania
Date: July 2011

2011 DAP Regional Assembly

2006 DOTAC Regional Assembly (2006) – Port of Spain, Trinidad

2007 DAP Regional Assembly

2007 DRAE Regional Assembly
Theme: Friendship – a gift to share – diaconal calling
Location: Basel, Switzerland
Date: June 2007

2002 DOTAC Regional Assembly – Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

2003 DAP Regional Assembly

2003 DRAE Regional Assembly
Theme: Stranger in a Foreign Land
Location: Beni Sueff, Egypt
Date: October 2003

1999 DOTAC Regional Assembly – Santa Catarina, Brasil

1999 DAP Regional Assembly

1999 DRAE Regional Assembly

1994 DOTAC Regional Assembly – Nashville, Tennessee, United States

1994 DAP Regional Assembly

1994 DRAE Regional Assembly

1989 DOTAC Regional Assembly – Kingston, Jamaica
1989 DAP Regional Assembly
1989 DRAE Regional Assembly

1985 DOTAC Regional Assembly – Radnor, Pennsylvania, United States
1985 DAP Regional Assembly
1985 DRAE Regional Assembly

1981 DOTAC Regional Assembly – Calgary, Alberta, Canada
1981 DAP Regional Assembly
1981 DRAE Regional Assembly

1977 DOTAC Regional Assembly – Lake Junaluska, North Carolina, USA
DAP Regional Assembly
DRAE Regional Assembly

1974
DOTAC Regional Assembly – Lennoxville, Quebec, Canada
DAP Regional Assembly
DRAE Regional Assembly

1971
DOTAC Regional Assembly – Valparaiso, Indiana, USA
DAP Regional Assembly
DRAE Regional Assembly

1968
DOTAC Regional Assembly – Racine, Wisconsin, USA
(first DOTAC Regional Assembly)
DAP Regional Assembly
DRAE Regional Assembly