Updated March 1, 2026 – Scott Coulter
Storytelling about Assembly’s Origins & History
This 2021 interview with Mary Ellen Meyer, gives one person’s first-person perspective on the origins of Assembly.
In this seven-minute clip from the Sept 8, 2019 Dedication Service (after the renovation adding the new Worship Space to the meetinghouse on New York Street), pastoral team member Karl Shelly offers an interpretation of Assembly’s history in 3 waves: (1) the first beginning in the 1970s, (2) the second wave beginning in the mid-1990s, (3) the third wave beginning around 2010. Karl also suggests three ways Assembly’s path ahead might incorporate these three strands of Assembly’s past.
In this seven-minute video clip from January 7, 2024 (the 50th Anniversary of the official origins of Assembly Mennonite Church), Dana Miller shares his version of the origins of Assembly from the house church movement in Goshen and the small groups movement in Goshen in the 1970s.
Storytelling about Dance and Movement in Worship at Assembly
- Linda Schlabach Miller and Michael Miller, January 2022 (7 minute video, with captions)
- Linda Schlabach Miller (with Michael Miller), August 2026 – Children’s Time and Storytelling (42 minute video, with captions)
- You can learn more about InterPlay by contacting Linda directly.
- (This page about Assembly’s Dance Group, which is the InterPlay group that is hosted at Assembly on Monday evenings throughout the year needs to be updated: Assembly Dance Group Information, Sept 2021)
Storytelling about Assembly and our Journey Toward Inclusion of LGBTQ+ Participants & Members
This four-minute video from about 2013 from the Supportive Communities Network / Brethren Mennonite Council for LGBT Interests features an interview with Karl Shelly about Assembly’s journey to becoming “open and affirming” of LGBTQ participants.
- “One Congregation’s Story” (Brethren Mennonite Council for LGBT Interests) (4 minute video)
- You can read a partial account of Assembly’s Journey Toward LGBTQ Inclusion, edited for sharing on April 7, 2024 as part of Assembly’s 50th Anniversary Celebration here. (PDF, 3 1/2 pages)
Assembly’s Covenant and Practices
- Read the Covenant and Practices here.
- Here are some of my own personal reflections on the Covenant (March 1, 2026).