2025 District Assembly SCHEDULE

Friday, April 4

• Registration Opens - 5:30p

• Opening Session - 6:30p

Saturday, April 5

• Registration Reopens - 8:00a

• Morning Session - 8:30a

• Lunch Break - 12:15p

• Ordination Service - 1:30p

MEAL VOUCHERS

Meal vouchers for the Ludwig Center cafeteria on Olivet’s campus are available for advance purchase at a discounted rate of $6.00 per meal for Friday dinner (April 4) and Saturday lunch (April 5). The order form will remain open through April 3. Vouchers must be purchased in advance to receive the discounted price.

Setting up the app:

• Once you have installed the app, open it and “Sign Up.” If you already have a login associated with your email address through the District Toolbox for the Pastor Dashboard, you may be able to login instead of creating an account.

• Select the language you prefer and the District (Chicago Central).

• Once you login, select the menu (three lines) at the top right of the app.

• Select “Edit Profile”

• Your information should be listed there, though you may need to select your “Language” and “District” (Chicago Central) again.

• Click “Update User” and close out the screen and you’re all set!

Dr. Carla Sunberg
General Superintendent

We are blessed to be under the leadership of our jurisdictional General Superintendent, Dr. Sunberg, for our 2025 Assembly. 

Dr. Carla Sunberg was elected 43rd general superintendent of the Church of the Nazarene at the 29th General Assembly in Indianapolis, Indiana, in June 2017. At the time of her election, Dr. Sunberg was president of Nazarene Theological Seminary, where she had been serving since January 2014.

She was ordained on the Russia North District, where she and her husband, Chuck, served the Church of the Nazarene for 13 years as pioneer missionaries to the former Soviet Union. In 2005, the Sunbergs returned to the United States and began pastoring at Grace Point Church of the Nazarene in Fort Wayne, Indiana. In 2011, she and her husband accepted a call to serve as co-district superintendents of the East Ohio District Church of the Nazarene.

Sunberg has a bachelor of science in nursing (BSN) degree from MidAmerica Nazarene University, a Master of Arts in Theological Studies (MATS) degree from Nazarene Theological Seminary (NTS), and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Historical Theology from Nazarene Theological College and the University of Manchester, United Kingdom. In May 2012, she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD) degree from Olivet Nazarene University. 

Dr. Sunberg has a long record of service to the Church of the Nazarene on various boards and committees. In addition, Sunberg also served as president of Wesleyan-Holiness Women Clergy, and chair of the Wesleyan-Holiness Connection.

She is the author of articles for various church publications, as well as numerous books. Her dissertation, The Cappadocian Mothers is published by Pickwick. Her latest works include Color: God's Intention for Diversity, written together with Dr. Daniel Gomis; editor of Faithful to the Call: Women in Ministry, and Why Holiness, as well as her latest release, Teach Us to Pray, all from the Foundry Publishing. 

Carla was born in Germany, the daughter of missionaries. She loves to teach and train leaders for the future of the church and has served as adjunct faculty for a number of institutions. Her heartfelt passion is a life of holiness and service for the Lord. Carla and Chuck are proud parents of two adult daughters, Christa, who along with her husband, Iain Maciver, lives in England with their two children, Theodore and Alana; and Cara, who with her husband, Justin Shonamon, and children Mackenzie, Alice, and Halston lives in Kansas City, Kansas.