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March 6, 2023
Volume 22, Issue 5
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Annual Report websites are now open.
To ensure we have maximum submissions, the timeline for churches to complete their Annual Report has been extended by one additional week.
The churches will have time until March 7th at 11pm, Eastern Time to submit the reports.
Thank you once again for your support and patience with the new applications. Email us at annualreport@cmalliance.org with any questions.
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Open Letter to CMA Pastors over 50 |
Dear CMA Pastor,
The Church still needs you. They need your pastoral experience, your Biblical training, and your seasoned leadership skills. Especially churches facing a pastoral transition.
In an American church culture that seems to value resumes from younger applicants, Interim Pastor Ministries (IPM) has found that churches between ministers value older, trained pastors who can guide them through their transition.
As one church lay leader commented,
“Our intentional interim pastor was a change agent affecting the culture of the church, moving us from a conflicted culture to a healthy missional culture. These changes could not happen without someone who had both the knowledge and experience to lead us to where we are today. Our decision to hire an intentional interim pastor was very important for us in order to become a more healthy and vibrant church.”
If you are looking for a rewarding way to continue being faithful to your call to ministry in your later years, IPM and Alliance Transitional Ministries (ATMN) both have opportunities waiting for you in churches that need you.
If you would like to explore the question, “Is Interim Ministry for You?” here is the link to IPM’s one-day, 6-hour Zoom session that helps you answer that question:
If you would like to explore interim pastoring with ATMN, click here to view their webpage to learn more.
After having served several interim pastorates myself, I would look forward to talking with you, if you prefer, about what it might mean to extend your years of service to our Lord while providing you with supplemental income or to learn about how IPM and ATMN work together. Contact me at rich@interimpastors.com.
In His Ministry Together,
Dr. Rich Brown
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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.
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Upcoming Events
March 21 - Church Planting
March 28 - DEXCOM
April 4 - Church Health Team
April 7 - Office Closed for Good Friday
April 24 - Missions Mobilization Team
April 28-30 District Youth Retreat
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Have a great story that will encourage your brothers and sisters in Christ? We would love to share your story right here!
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All mission leaders and pastors are invited to district converge. We will be covering the topics and materials that were shared at the national converge in January.
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.
Please invite your mission committee members and other leaders in your church engaged with Alliance Missions. We are excited to grow in our capacity to send, support, and go to the hard places as we engage in this time together.
Watch a brief video message about the converge here.
The venue for The District Converge will be:
Christ Proclamation Church
12113 Vale Rd, Oakton, VA 22124
The cost is $15/person
April 1st
9am-3pm
Lunch will be provided onsite.
To Register, please click here.
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Registration is now open for Alliance Council 2023 in Spokane, Washington, May 29–June 2.
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:
- Worship
- Healing and Communion
- The updating of our Alliance Statement of Faith
- Polity on men and women in leadership
- The election of new Board members
- The Project Reimagine timeline
- The commissioning of new international workers
- The forward momentum of our All of Jesus for All the World vision!
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Lay Leadership Conference 2023 - Save the Date |
The Lay Leadership Conference 2023 is scheduled for May 12th & 13th.
The theme is Improving your Serve. More details to come.
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NEXT Ministry Conference registration is live.
Cost = $25 per adult, $15 per student
See webpages for more information:
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The Alliance Arts Festival |
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.
Category Descriptions:
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.
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Registration for the 2023 District Youth Retreat is now open.
Please click here to register. |
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