As part of our redevelopment plan we are increasing our focus on evangelism and discipleship for the next few years. What evangelism method are you effectively using at your church? What clearly defined pathway do you have in place to move a new believer to a mature disciple?

We don’t want you to wrestle with these questions without providing some resources to help you! The District Office is hosting several webinars and podcasts in 2023 that will introduce you to resources or open opportunities for you to engage with topics that will assist you in these areas….AND MORE!

The first of these webinars will be on January 31 at 7 pm. Our guest will be Dr. Ken Priddy, director and founder of the Go Center, Inc. You can find his website here:

Ken will be joining us to discuss his resource for evangelism entitled, New Hope for Graying Congregations. As part of his presentation we will open the Q&A function to allow you at ask questions to better understand this resource.

Over the next few months, we hope to offer open discussions on a program from the Billy Graham School of Evangelism at Wheaton, the new Evangelism Explosion, and other evangelism resources.

Please register to join us for our first resource webinar with Dr. Ken Priddy, January 31 at 7 pm. 

Click here to register.

We will send out a Zoom Meeting Link to those who register on the day of the event.

The event is January 26^th, 6 – 8 p.m.

For more information and registration click here.

Ross Halbersma is coordinating a private reception/meeting time with Stephen Notley. Please notify Ross by email if you will be attending so that you can be included! Please share this registration link with your congregants who express interest in Israel!  

Please click here for more details.

As you know, The Prayer Gathering is on the 10^th of February 2023 at 7pm.

It will be a great time of worship and prayer to our Heavenly Father.

 

The venue for the Gathering will be:

The Frederick Alliance Church

We encourage you to attend this prayer gathering if you are in or around Frederick.

For those who live far away, this event will be live streamed so you can watch and pray wherever you are.

 

Let us encourage our family, friends, and congregation to attend this Prayer Gathering. 

IPM has recently announced its 2023 one-day introductory training schedule (Zoom) for anyone interested in answering the question, “Is Interim Ministry for You?”

Visit https://interimpastors.com/2023-training-days/ to get information and register for the one-day introductory training.

Please send stories to Linsie Fish at info@cmamad.org

On-Call District Support - We are available to our district family of workers to help you in anyway processing stress and difficulties. Click here to read more.

February 10 - The Gathering

February 13 - Missions Mobilization

February 16 - Budget & Finance

February 16 - Church Health

February 27 - 28 - LO&CC

2023 Printable Calendar - Please note, changes are made throughout the year as needed.

Click here to register!

NEXT Ministry Conference registration is live.

Cost = $25 per adult, $15 per student

See webpages for more information:

• February 25—Princeton Alliance Church—Metro/Spanish Eastern

• March 4—Crown College—North Central

• March 4—Lewisburg Alliance Church—Eastern PA

• March 11—Indiana Alliance Church—Western PA 

Join us for The Alliance Arts Festival at Council 2023 in Spokane. The event is being launched to celebrate the arts, integrate them into personal and corporate worship, and foster a deeper sense of community among Alliance creatives.

This is a chance to pay forward the creative gifts God gave you by helping others deepen their walk with Jesus through the arts. It’s also an iron-sharpening-iron networking opportunity for Alliance artists to connect, collaborate, and co-create through a variety of media.

Participants are invited to submit their work in the areas of cinematic, visual, and language arts. Submissions will be accepted between February 1 and May 1, 2023. To qualify, all works must have been completed after May 2021 (the date of the previous Alliance Council). Submissions deemed by the judges to be gratuitously vulgar, violent, or sexual in nature will be disqualified from entry.

More information and submission instructions coming soon!

Cinematic Arts: Films of various categories, including but not limited to fictional/narrative short film, non-fiction/short documentary, conceptual, music video, and animation. Entries can be no more than seven minutes in length and can be submitted in any language. English in-frame captions will be required for non-English submissions. Films must have a minimum resolution of 1080p, landscape or portrait, and must be encoded in .mp4 or .mov formats. All music and other non-original/copyrighted material (images, videos, etc.) used in entries must be properly licensed and credited at the end of the film.

Visual Arts: Photography, mixed media, illustration, painting, drawing, and other works of 2-dimentional art. Entries must be submitted in high-quality .jpeg/.jpg formats with a minimum resolution of 2400 x 3000 pixels (300 ppi @ 8x10 inches).

Language Arts: Poetry, short stories (2,000 or fewer words), and other written or spoken word submissions. Written entries can be submitted as text files (MS WORD preferred). Spoken word entries can be submitted in audio (.mp3, .m4v, .wav) or video (.mp4, .mov) formats. Music and/or other non-original/copyrighted material (images, videos, etc.) used in spoken word entries must be properly licensed and credited at the end of the film.

EquippingU Dynamic Influence is a two-year training track that began in 2022 for pastors and leaders of Alliance churches with attendance of 200 people or fewer. Participants meet online for four two-hour sessions each year. The trainings cover timely topics, including how small churches can grow during a pandemic. Our goal is to help pastors in small churches find resources, lead well, and help their churches thrive.

The first webinar of 2023 starts on February 22, 2023, at 12:00 p.m. EST. Please register now to not miss out on this wonderful opportunity!

In this webinar, Karl Vaters, the small church guru, will present on The Next Decade: A Scouting Report from Boots-On-The-Ground Pastors. After his presentation, there will be a Q&A session for the participants to interact with the presenter.

When the spies went into the Promised Land, ten of the twelve came back with a bad report. But there were two with a minority report. They saw the same giants, but trusted God’s promise. In this talk, Karl Vaters relates what he’s been hearing from pastors all over the country in the last few years and, despite the very real challenges, there’s some good news ahead.

While no one can predict the future, we can prepare for it. So, this session will look at:

1. What’s coming,

2. What might be coming,

3. What probably isn’t coming, and

4. What we can do about it.

Annual Report websites are now open - please complete your report before February 28th. Who will be the first in MAD to get theirs in?