Thank you, Bossey! Alumni network launches

Thank you, Bossey! Alumni network launches

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Wed, 10/07/2026 - 21:47

World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay officially launched the Bossey Alumni Network on 7 October. The new digital platform will connect and enrich more than 3,000 former Bossey students across the world.

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Photo: Marcelo Schneider/WCC

The launch was part of the 80th anniversary celebration of the Ecumenical Institute at Bossey.

As those gathered commemorated eight decades, alumni—some in person and some recorded online—voiced how their experience at the institute changed their lives.

WCC programme director for Unity, Mission, and Ecumenical Formation Rev. Dr Kuzipa Nalwamba, posed the question: “ What did Bossey give you that you could not have received elsewhere?”

From life-changing conversations to lifelong friends, alumni voices their gratitude for the institute, the faculty, and for each other.

The new Bossey Alumni Network is a digital space for alumni to reconnect. Free of charge, it will be a source of communication and news.

As Pillay said, launching the network to…