Central Connection | February 27th, 2025
In This Connection
2025 Regional Partnerships
Evangelism Training Registration Open!
Alliance Women Spring Events: Be Bold
Pastors’ Wives Retreat | March 21st-23rd
A Thought From The Multiplication Director
Lay Delegate Registration | General Council 2025
District Leadership Development Scholarship
LIFE 2025 Financial Grant | Central District Scholarship
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 27 @ Zanesville Alliance Church
April 3 @ Mansfield Alliance Church
West Virginia date and location to come!
Please RSVP to Taylor Callahan [email protected]
Evangelism Training Registration Open
Registration is now open for our Evangelism Training that
will take place on April 5th!
9:00 am - 4:00 pm at the Central District Office
(1231 High St., Wadsworth, OH 44281)
Join us for an interactive evangelism workshop which will explore the Biblical basis for evangelism, practical training in personal evangelism and missional living, and suggestions for evangelistic ministry in the local church. You will leave with resources to implement after this day-long workshop.
All are welcome!
Pastors, Lay Leaders, Elders, Potential Leaders and anyone currently in the Consecration & Ordination pathway, as this fulfills one of their requirements.
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 taken to 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.
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!
Church Multiplication Director Thought
A brief message from Todd Sovine.
(Director of Church Multiplication)
What do you think? Which mentality is more likely to unleash a 'multiplication culture' in your context - A church-mentality or a Kingdom-mentality?
Why? What is the difference?
Which mentality is most prevalent in you and your folks?
Lets talk!
Email Kirsten Tousley, [email protected], to make
an appointment with Todd Sovine.
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.
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.
LIFE 2025 Financial Grant
LIFE is a gathering for the next generation Alliance family to experience God and expand His kingdom locally and globally.
Click here to visit the LIFE event website!
LIFE seeks to:
GLORIFY God in worship, word, and community.
INTRODUCE Jesus Christ into the whole life of each student.
EXPOSE God's heart for the lost.
INSPIRE students to join the global Alliance family.
The Central District would like to support students and leaders in financial need to attend LIFE. We will subsidize up to $300 per student / $500 per leader, with a maximum of $3,000 per church.
Please note: This grant is also available to those who have already applied to the National Office grant.
We will process these as we receive them and award scholarships at the end of each month beginning now until the funds are gone or registration closes.
The deadline to submit an application for this scholarship is April 15th, 2025.
Click here to view the application!
Please complete the attached application and send it
to Mariah Kulton, [email protected].
If you have any questions, please email Mariah Kulton, [email protected]