Central Connection | February 6th, 2025
In This Connection
Annual Reports | Due Next Week
Alliance Women Spring Events: Be Bold
Upcoming Events & Trainings
District Leadership Development Scholarship
Lay Delegate Registration | General Council 2025
Annual Reports
Over the past several weeks we sent out a few reminders that
2024 Annual Reports are due next Friday, February 14th.
At this time, we are at 29% completion with only 8 days left until the due date. Our expectation is 100% completion. We need every church committed to this National Office requirement. With this report being comprehensive we encourage you to begin this immediately if you have not already.
If for some reason you did not receive your link to sign on to the application to begin filing your report, please reach out to our office right away.
Thank you to those who have already completed and submitted their annual report. We greatly appreciate you making this a priority and responding punctually.
Please reach out to our office with any questions you may have. We are here to work with you and assist you with this process!
Be Bold Spring Events
Saturday, March 15th, 2025
One event in 3 locations!
Hope Community Church in Hudson, OH
Northview Church in Wooster, OH
Buckhannon Alliance Church in Buckhannon, WV
Choose the location that works for you and join us for a day of hearing from our International Workers and lifting them up in prayer in addition to being challenged to boldness in your own context.
Bring a brunch item such as a breakfast casserole, fruit platter, or pastry tray to share (one item per car full of women).
Please contact Rayna Strong event coordinator for more information or to register your group ([email protected]).
Upcoming Events & Trainings
Alliance Peacemaking Training: Level 1 - March 1st
Learn how to walk through conflict in a way that honors God and fosters transformation, forgiveness, and reconciliation. This is a one-day seminar for both leaders and laypeople.
Join us Saturday, March 1st from 9:00 am - 4:00 pm at
the Central District Office.
(1231 High St, Wadsworth, OH 44281)
Click here to register now!
Registration deadline is Monday, February 24th, 2025.
Church Mobilization Training - March 15th
God has called his people to be on mission with him in this world. This Church Mobilization Training is designed to equip leaders for greater kingdom advancement. You will learn the seven practices for being a mobilized ministry as well as practical ways to enable the church to seek the transformation of one another and the spiritually lost world around them.
Join us Saturday, March 15th, from 9:00 am - 4:00 pm at
the Central District Office
(1231 High St, Wadsworth, OH 44281).
Click here to register now!
All are welcome! Pastors, Lay Leaders, Elders, Potential Leaders and anyone currently in the Consecration & Ordination Process, as this fulfills one of their requirements.
Deeper Life: Senior Retreat - March 19th-21st
The Deeper Life Retreat is planned with you in mind! We gather each year to learn how God is working in each of our lives. We make new friends, have wonderful times of fellowship, sing the great hymns of the past and enjoy delicious Amish cooking! Jeff Miller District Superintendent of the Ohio Valley District will be our retreat speaker this year.
Deeper Life will take place March 19th-21st, 2025, at the Carlisle Inn
(1357 Old Route 39, Sugarcreek, OH 44681)
To pay by credit card click the link here.
Select your rooming option, how many people you are paying for and then click the “Add to Cart” button to continue. Fill out the registration form, then make your payment.
If you prefer to mail in your registration, click this link to print off the registration form. Select your rooming option, then make your check payable to Central District CMA, notating Senior Retreat on the memo line. Mail check and registration to: Linda Gray - 107 Northwood Drive, Dover, OH 44622
Register by February 17th, 2025.
For questions, contact Linda Gray at (614) 937-7989.
Alliance Peacemaking Training: Level 2 - April 30th-May 1st
"Conflict is inevitable; how we handle it is not. God expects us to handle our conflicts differently than the world does. Alliance Peacemaking teaches how He wants us to deal with conflict."
If you are a Christian leader (consecrated and ordained or lay), you are already coaching. This two-day live seminar equips you to coach better from a biblical standpoint to help other people see and resolve their conflict from a godly perspective. Certified conflict coaches become resources for their churches.
Please note: You must complete level 1 training to participate in this event.
This training will be held at Riverside Alliance Church, April 30th-May 1st.
( 2433 S Main St, Akron, OH 44319)
The cost to attend is $300.
Click here to register now!
District Leadership Development Scholarship
Applications for the District Leadership Development Scholarship are being accepted now through April 2nd, 2025. The district is offering to cover up to 60% in financial assistance.
This needs-based leadership development scholarship will benefit people throughout the Central District who are pursuing accreditation with the Alliance or who are participating in District-approved ministry initiatives.
Leadership development programs that are already approved include: Alliance Center for Leadership Development (ACLD), LEAD, Westwood Academy, and Thrive. Please encourage those in your congregations to consider one of these programs (or other options like these) and to apply for the scholarship.
Click here to apply or see more information!
Please email Mariah Kulton ([email protected]) with any additional questions you may have.
Lay Delegate Registration
General Council will be held May 26th – May 30th, 2025, in Columbus, Ohio. This important event is open to all C&MA members and adherents.
If your church plans to send a lay delegate to Council, the deadline to submit your form(s) to the district office is Friday, March 28th. Be sure to add this to your Governing Board Agenda prior to this date.
Please share the attached information below regarding General Council with your Governing Board Secretary.
Important Note: We ask that you register your delegate through the process prior to Council. This will help alleviate the need for someone to find the district superintendent for his approval and signature during Council.
2025 Council Letter to Official Workers
Lay Delegate Certificate 2025
Lay Delegate #'s for Churches
The completed form can be emailed to [email protected],
or faxed to (330) 334-3702.