Central Connection | March 6th, 2025
In This Connection
Tell Us Your Stories!
Pastors' Wives Retreat | March 21st-23rd
Alliance Women Spring Events: Be Bold
2025 Regional Partnerships
Lay Delegate Registration | General Council 2025
Alliance Peacemaking Training: Level 2 | April 30th-May 1st
Central District Save-The-Dates
Tell Us Your Stories!
In the weekly Central Connection, we send out
information for you to be aware of. But we also want to be able to tell the stories of what is going on throughout the district.
Please send us the stories of…
Where God is at work in your midst
Opportunities the Lord has given your church for kingdom advancement
Key answers to prayer, healing stories, and praiseworthy highlights
How Jesus has helped your church through a challenge
Other stories
Stay within a 300-500 word limit. Send pictures if possible.
We think that including your stories will be a great encouragement!
Please send brief stories to [email protected]
Pastors’ Wives Retreat
This retreat is for the wives of licensed workers currently serving on staff in a local church context. Together, we will worship, learn how we can grow in our spiritual walk and laugh together.
We will be renting a large home in Ravenna, Ohio. Meals will be provided beginning Friday dinner through breakfast on Sunday morning. Please note on the registration if you require gluten free meals.
Click here to register or see more information!
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.
An offering will be received so that our International Workers and partner churches in Ukraine can provide much needed diapers for children and adults.
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 ([email protected]) event coordinator for more information or to register your group.
2025 Regional Partnerships
We are planning FIVE Regional gatherings this spring and summer.
Our focus will be:
Spring – Missional Breakthrough in Anxious Times
Summer – Prayer Coming Out of General Council and Heading into District Conference
Mark your calendars for the date that works best for you.
Bring other leaders from your congregations as well.
All times are 9:30am-11:30am with lunch to follow for those who can stay.
March 18 @ CrossPoint Alliance Church
March 25 @ West Side Alliance Church
March 26 @ Buckhannon Alliance Church
March 27 @ Zanesville Alliance Church
April 3 @ Mansfield Alliance Church
Please RSVP to Taylor Callahan [email protected]
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.
Alliance Peacemaking Training: Level 2
"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!
