Annual Meeting 2011
June 16-19
Moline, Illinois

"Guided by the Spirit: Brought to Complete Unity"

The Spanish churches of Eastern Iowa and Moline, Illinois, will host our 2011 Annual Meeting, giving our conference a great opportunity to fellowship with and hear from Hispanic brothers and sisters. Meeting in the home area of our Hispanic churches promises to be a rich experience, especially with the issues swirling through the broader church relating to immigration and the location of our 2013 Convention.

We begin our fellowship together on Thursday evening, June 16, at Templo Alabanza, the church in Moline. On Friday and Saturday, we meet at the Ramada Airport & Conference Center in Moline. This facility will be a blessing to the hosts because the hotel staff will take care of many meeting logistics, including lodging. The Annual Meeting Task Group was pleasantly surprised to learn that the meeting room rental will cost substantially less than renting a school, as we have done for the last several years.

We will begin each day, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, with worship. Our preacher will be Juanita Nuñez, a Mennonite pastor from Miami Florida. She works as a certified part-time chaplain with Marketplace Chaplains USA. She and her husband Eligio are co-pastors at Iglesia Cristiana Ebenezer in Apopka, Florida where they were ordained into the ministry in 2008. Juanita is a past moderator of the Iglesia Menonita Hispana and sits on the Executive Board of Mennonite Church USA. She studied theology in a local Orlando Bible Institute and has a bachelor’s degree in Theology and Arts from the International Seminary in Plymouth, Florida. She was born and raised in the Dominican Republic. Eligio and Juanita have raised three children.

Following worship on Friday and Saturday, we will gather for delegate sessions. “We are responding to the delegates’ request for more discernment and less business,” said moderator Diane Zaerr Brenneman. The morning delegate sessions will focus on business items, and afternoon sessions will be spent in discernment, particularly around the question, “What are the activities, practices, programs, and behaviors that will help our conference be faithful and united in mission.”

The themes for Annual Meeting over the next three years are from the prayer of Jesus in John 17:23, “I in them and you in me, that they may become completely one, so that the world may know that you have sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.” The themes are: Guided by the Spirit: Brought to Complete Unity (2011), Guided by the Spirit: To Let the World Know (2012), and Guided by the Spirit: Knowing God’s Love (2013).

Photos of Annual Meeting 2011
by Stan Harder

Here are the forms you need to register for Annual Meeting.

To register, print the registration form, fill it out and mail it to Central Plains Mennonite Conference, P.O. Box 101, Freeman, SD  57029.  It is not possible to register online.

Welcome letter

Information Sheet
Please read this before you fill out your registration form.

2011 Schedule

Workshops

Registration Form

Child's Reg Form

Youth Delegate Fact Sheet

If you have questions, please call Monica at 605-925-4463 or email her at  officecentralplainsmc.org.