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This is the UMC General Conference at the Charlotte Convention Center on April 30, 2024. If a delegate had technical problems voting a flag was held up to stop voting until the problems was ...
The United Methodist Church ... congregations that felt the time for disaffiliation had come. Their window for leaving the UMC under somewhat favorable financial terms closed on December 31 ...
Why 2023 was so dramatic for the United Methodist Church's splintering. 5,505 disaffiliations, 17 legal battles and new alternative Methodist groups. Why 2023 was so dramatic for the United ...
The General Commission on Christian Unity and Interreligious Concerns (GCCUIC) addresses the interreligious and ecumenical concerns of The United Methodist Church. The GCCUIC's office is located at The Interchurch Center in New York City. The Commission's President is Bishop Mary Ann Swenson and the General Secretary is Stephen J. Sidorak Jr.
Schools, colleges, and universities are related to the United Methodist Church through the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry. [1] In 2022, there are a total of 107 UM-Affiliated schools, colleges, and universities. In 2021, there were 108, as shown on this map of UM-Affiliated institutions in the U.S. and Puerto Rico.
In February 2022, the UMC announced that it was examining again postponing the General Conference. [34] Not wanting to wait for the General Conference to occur, some conservative United Methodist congregations left the United Methodist Church to become a part of the Free Methodist Church. [35] [36] The denomination launched on May 1, 2022.
Winfield Community Church in Dover Township was one of the first congregations to leave the United Methodist Church, disaffiliating in 2021. However, it has not joined the Global Methodists.
Mark Hipps-Figgs offers a prayer request during a service of Elizabeth Street United Methodist Church on Sunday, July 31, 2022, in Durham, N.C. Mark and Maxie Hipps-Figgs were the first gay couple ...