Annual Report websites are now open - please complete your report before the deadline which is February 28th. Thank you to the churches that have started their reports.

Thank you once again for your support and patience with the new applications. Email us at annualreport@cmalliance.org with any questions.

We believe that God is always at work, but when He does things quietly behind the scenes we don’t always notice. Then again, sometimes it is hard not to see what he has been working on all along.

In January of 2020, we invited Pastor Allen Grimes to join the staff as Executive pastor. With this decision came a merger of two churches, First Alliance Church, and Harvest Time Community Church. Building bridges across racial lines was certainly on our minds, but we had no idea then just what it could lead to. God, however, knows the end from the beginning and was already at work.

Just the year before, God led our church to start a food distribution for the community. Initially, we were hard pressed to have enough volunteers, but along the way God sent more and more people to help us. At first, it included people in the neighborhood that found out about it and wanted to participate. Then it included volunteers from some of the other churches that meet in our building. Along the way, a home school group saw this as a great opportunity for their students to serve. And then, Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc., a group where Pastor Grimes is a member, inquired about helping. Though not explicitly a Christian group, several of the founders were Ministers of the Gospel and their motto is: Culture for Service and Service for Humanity.

To read more on this good news story by Rev. Michael J. Mercurio, please click this link.

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 - Several district chapalins are available to our district family of workers to help you in anyway processing stress and difficulties. Click here to read more.

February 16 - Budget & Finance

February 16 - Church Health

February 27 - 28 - LO&CC

March 21 - Church Planting

March 28 - DEXCOM

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

Converge is an Alliance missions conference designed to equip people for the changing realities of missions. This year the theme is Going to Hard Places.

Watch a brief video message about the converge here.

To Register, please click here.

For more information please contact Jonathan Thornton. 

Nestled in the scenic Pacific Northwest, the Spokane Convention Center has the advantage of being in the heart of the city while seated amid some of the most picturesque landscapes, making it an ideal venue to explore or just sit back and hear from the Lord. From the Spokane River Gorge to Mt. Spokane and Spokane Falls—and an impressive array of art galleries and museums—there are many memorable adventures awaiting you in and around this great city.

In addition, Spokane has made a name for itself in the national food scene—all within walking distance of the convention center and hotels at a great price point.

The most compelling reason we gather at Council, however, is to seek the Spirit’s presence and power for life and ministry. We come expectant that He will meet us where we are and lead us to where He wants us to be.

Your presence at Alliance Council 2023 is vital to the growth and vitality of our work together.

Let’s come expectant of our Lord’s guidance as we seek Him in:

Register Now! 

Tim and Linnea Allen who are on staff at Neighborhood church had a baby, Elijah (Eli) Lee Allen, on Friday February 10, 2023. All are doing great and home safe!

The Lay Leadership Conference 2023 is scheduled for May 12th & 13th.

The theme is Improving your Serve. More details to come.

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 April 7, 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.

The cost per Submission is $15. Multiple submissions may be entered.

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.

Email communications@cmalliance.org with any questions.

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.

If you missed the Evangelism Webinar with Dr. Ken Priddy, you can watch a recording of the event here.