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The North Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church voted Saturday to accept the decision of 261 congregations to leave the denomination over a divide on LGBTQ issues.
The North Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church has voted to allow 261 churches to leave the denomination amid a schism over LGBTQ issues.
Oct. 9—East Cobb's 9,000-member Mt. Bethel United Methodist Church filed responses to, and countersued, administrators of the Methodist church's regional governing body on Friday. In Cobb County ...
The North Georgia Conference is a regional episcopal area, (similar to a diocese) of the United Methodist Church. (Not to be confused with the "Annual Conference" which is the yearly meeting of the North Georgia Conference itself.)
Uniting Church in Sweden; United Methodist Church, European regional conferences Central and Southern Europe Central Conference [6] United Methodist Church in Austria; United Methodist Church in Bulgaria; United Methodist Church in Hungary; Northern Europe Central Conference of the United Methodist Church. United Methodist Church in Norway [7]
Specifically, the UMC Judicial Council said paragraph 2549 upholds the trust clause, a legal idea that vests a church’s property ultimately in the hands of a regional conference and not that ...
B. Michael Watson (born July 3, 1949) is a bishop of The United Methodist Church, elected in 2000. He served as resident bishop of the North Georgia Annual Conference, which comprises 1,000 churches, more than 1,500 clergy members, and more than 320,000 lay members. He retired in 2016 and currently serves as ecumenical officer of the Council of ...
The cascade of churches voting to leave the UMC centers on one policy: the denomination’s as-yet-unofficial commitment to both ordain and marry LGBT people within the church.