Greetings friends, at the fall board meeting, it was decided to move CMCN into a new, “reinvented” direction. Since the inception of CMCN in 1994, it has been membership based and revenues from annual renewals, new members, and sale of the Convention Calendar. With a decline in Christian education/Sunday School or educational training conferences around the country, the board elected to move to a “product and service” organization.
Now comes the work! To “reinvent” CMCN, there will be a lot of work involved (web site, publications, communications sent, etc…) before a totally new CMCN will emerge. Perhaps the one exciting aspect of our first step in reinvention will be the distribution of our “Developing and Operating a Christian Conference or Convention”. This will be shipped, complimentary, to existing members, and will be made available for sale via www.cmcn.org web site.
As the new Executive Director, I’m excited to be on the ground floor of the new organization. Yet, at the same time, I’m overwhelmed by the amount of work that will be involved in making this work! God will be coming along side us in moving CMCN into our newly emerged organization.
The board discussed a name change – once things move along with basic changes, CMCN will emerge under the name “Chrisitian Conventions Network”. This new name will better portray our mission and purpose. Until then, you will find us on the web, via e-mail, in publications as “CMCN”. We’re thinking of retaining our corporate name of Church Ministry Conventions Network, as this is our official, registered name with several government entities. You may see us as “Christian Conventions Network – a ministry of CMCN” in the near future!
Go to www.cmcn.org and read our latest newsletter!
Blessings to each of you in 2008!
Dale R. Shafer, Executive Director
Church Ministry Conventions Network
