Central Connection | January 16th, 2025
In This Connection
2024 Annual Reports | Now Live!
Lay Delegate Registration | General Council 2025
Upcoming Events & Trainings
Rise Up: Women’s Simulcast | February 1st
LIFE 2025 Financial Grant | Central District Scholarship
Worker Update
Annual Reports
On January 15th all lead pastors and annual report editors should have received an email with a link to sign on to the application and begin filing the 2024 report.
If for some reason you do not receive your link please reach out to our office right away, as to not delay this process.
Please make this a priority, as this is a National Office requirement and not optional. Plan accordingly as this will take some time to gather and input the requested information.
February 14th, 2025, is the deadline to complete and file your church report.
Please contact our office with any questions that you may have.
Phone: 330.336.2911
Email: [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.
Upcoming Events & Trainings
Bylaws Workshop - February 1st, 2025
Much has changed culturally and denominationally in the past several years. Are your church’s policies and bylaws up-to-date?
If your current church's bylaws are over eight years old, we recommend a review take place. There are some helpful bylaws that you are strongly encouraged to consider that keep us more fully aligned with The Alliance.
Plan to send 2-3 people from your church to the Bylaws Workshop to begin that review process.
Click here to register now!
(There is no registration fee.)
Please contact Taylor Callahan ([email protected]) with any questions you may have.
Alliance Peacemaking Training: Level 1 - March 1st, 2025
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, 2025
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, 2025
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
Registration closes February 18th, 2025.
For questions, contact Linda Gray at (614) 937-7989.
Rise Up: Simulcast
Join with others in homes to watch the simulcast, discuss, pray, and grow together as you Rise Up in all that God has for you. You’ll hear from women across The Central District share words of challenge and blessing.
YouTube link available February 1st ~ Content available through 2025
Suggested time frame ~ 3 hours
Speakers and Topics include
Paige Paugh ~ Rise Up in the Armor of God
Erin Kohl ~ Be Bold Abroad
Panel Discussion ~ Rise Up in your Everyday Life
Joy Trachsel ~ Rise Up in Prayer
Raechelle Scoggins ~ Rise Up in the Word
See our website for additional Frequently Asked Questions
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]
Worker Update
Please keep Tom & Karin Csora (Grace Church of Old Brooklyn), as well as the Csora family in your prayers as they mourn the loss and celebrate the life of Tom's father who passed away on January 8th.