Welcome to the 126th Central Conference Annual Meeting

April 27-28, 2012Zion Covenant Church, Sheboygan, WI

LET US IMAGINE:

The Central Conference is now the largest,

strongest, most vibrant, most progressive and

financially sound conference in the

Evangelical Covenant Church

That the Central Conference where the inevitabilityof change has become something to be embraced as a pathway to renewal, health and vitality.

That the Central Conference is now the

place where tens of thousands of

new converts per year enter into

into a new relationship with

Jesus Christ.

That the Central

Conference is where all of its

churches are living out

the Great

Commission of Christ

That the Central Conference is where all of its churches are organically and strategically involved in ministries of compassion, mercy and justice and living out the

Our churches bare the marks of being healthy and missional.

Our churches are places where Gifts of the Spirit are alive and well.

Our churches are places where God is believed, present and loved.

Our churches know that the Spirit is not a party symbol but the wind and fire in each of us.

Where each

congregation is in

mission and each Christian, gifted for ministry.