Summer Fest 2025 (formerly Annual Sessions) will be held on June 13-14 at Waterford Mennonite Church, Goshen, IN
Registration is now open for Summer Fest 2025 until May 30!
Summer Fest 2025 Schedule
Friday
- 5:30-6:30 — Registration
- 6:30-7:45 — Worship
- 8:00-9:00 — Social Hour
Saturday
- 8:30-9:00 — Registration
- 9:00-10:15 — Worship
- 10:30-12:30 — Discerning in Community
- 12:30-1:30 — Lunch
- 1:30-2:45 — Seminars
- 3:00-4:00 — Fun Fest
- 4:15-5:30 — Worship
Featured Speakers
Worship
Crossing Borders, Seeing Jesus
Quinn Breneke
Stories from MCC Borderlands Tour in South Texas
Cindy Voth and Katie Misz
Love Has No Borders
Sharon Yoder
Seminars
The Dream Lives On! Dorothy’s Word
Jacob Elias
Looking back, living forward: An African woman’s recollections of 40 years of a Pietist, Evangelical, Wesleyan, Pentecostal and Anabaptist faith (1985–2025)
Sibonokuhle Ncube
Eco-Anabaptism at 499: The ‘Gospel of All Creatures’ and Climate Change
Douglas Day Kaufman
Fun Fest Activities
Wetlands Trail Walk
Pickleball
Crafts with MCC
Documents
Coming Soon!
Conference Sunday
Conference Sunday this year is June 15th, the day after Summer Fest. Conference staff have created a resource page (similar to the worship materials in Leader magazine) and recorded a sermon for you to use that Sunday. These resources invite congregations to engage with the Summer Fest focus verse and theme: I Corinthians 13:7-8a, Love Has No Borders.
We invite you to use these materials in the way that is most helpful for your congregation, whether all or just some of them. We hope that having these materials will make Sunday preparation easier for pastors and worship leaders who are attending Summer Fest. You may also choose to use them on an alternative Sunday that works better for your congregation.
If you find these materials helpful, and/or if there are ways they can be more helpful to you, please let us know! You can send an email with thoughts and suggestions to Andrea at imoffice@im.mennonite.net.
