The final service of the 2013 Church Leaders Conference started out with a celebration song and dance performed by members of the worship team. The worship team was coordinated by Cindi Angelo and led by Hugo Conceição. Other team members included Carla Conceição and Marcio and Julia Vitorino from Portugal; Péter Tóth from Hungary; Kali Long, Alkaios Papnagis, and Maria Long from Greece; and Diane Mellinger from Bulgaria. This international group worked extremely well together and contributed greatly to the conference.
Thanks were expressed by Bishop Roller to Larry Winckles and Júlia Tóth for their leadership in organizing and operating the conference. Larry then expressed thanks to his team of assistants - Katie Winckles, Margaret and Joe Tanner, Al and Diane Mellinger, and Scott Dunn. Special thanks was given to Cindi and Eduardo Angelo for their assistance with the advance preparations and arrangements with the hotel and with ground transportation.
Carmelo Palmés Guedes, ministerial candidate from the Canary Islands, gave a short testimony and spoke about the new work in Fuerteventura that will utilize Community Church Planing principles.
Kali Long and her husband, Alkaios Papanagis, sang "Seek Ye First the Kingdom of God" in Greek. Alkaios is a trained opera singer with an wonderful tenor voice. Together they blessed the Lord and those gathered for the service.
Mitch Pierce was the final speaker of the conference. He spoke on "Being a Church with Impact."
Bishop Roller concluded the conference by announcing that discussions were underway to hold the 2015 Church Leaders Conference in Sofia, Bulgaria. He then dismissed CLC 2013 with a prayer and a blessing.
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