Past Regional Conferences

Our regional conferences create spaces where members meet, share experiences and learn from one another across cultures and contexts. They offer opportunities to reflect on diaconal practice, strengthen relationships and explore common responses to the social, economic and climate-related challenges we face.

Past regional conferences reflect our shared journey of learning, encounter and diaconal collaboration across Africa and Europe.

September 2023: Neuendettelsau, Germany

Theme: “Hope in a fragile world”, 6th to 10th September 2023

June 2019: Edinburgh, Scotland – 25th Anniversary of DRAE

Theme: “For Such a Time as This.” 19th to 24th of June 2019 More information here.

July 2015: Kongshaug, Norway

Theme: “The Eye of the Storm.” Diaconia – the biblical challenge for the whole church in the world we live in”. More information here.

July 2011: Moshi, Tanzania

Theme: “Help from beyond the Mountain.”

June 2007: Basel, Switzerland

Theme: “Friendship – a gift to share – diaconal calling.”

October 2003: Beni Sueff, Egypt

Theme: “Stranger in a Foreign Land”