The Council of the Congregation which met at Helvoirt (Netherlands) in May 2006  created the International Lay/Religious Commission requested by the General Chapter (#111 and #104) in May 2005.
That Commission is composed of five lay persons and two religious who represent the various cultural components of the Assumptionist Congregation ( Africa, North America, South America, Europe, and eventually Asia).

IMPLEMENTING THE DECISIONS OF THE GENERAL CHAPTER

And is courage not indispensable to everyone who, in the position in which Providence has placed him, wishes to be energetically and in a similar manner a child of God and of the Church?  (Father d’Alzon Day by Day, p. 243)