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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 ...
Delegates voted 692-51 at their General Conference — the first such legislative gathering in five years. Past General Conferences of the United Methodist Church had steadily reinforced the ban ...
The United Methodist Church (UMC) has historically regarded itself as a ... It already boasts more than 2,000 congregations and plans to hold its first General Conference in the fall of 2024. The ...
The Book of Discipline and constitution of the United Methodist connection define the composition of the General Conference as no less than 600 and no more 1,000 delegates, half laity and half clergy. These delegates are elected by the Annual Conferences and several other specialized bodies within the structure of The United Methodist Church.
Following the exodus of traditionalist United Methodist congregations from the denomination, in May 2024, the General Conference of The United Methodist Church convened in Charlotte, NC, and delegates voted to remove language defining homosexuality as sinful, along with restrictions on the ordination and marriage of LGBTQIA+ individuals from ...
Newly elected bishops are consecrated in worship services at the end of each jurisdictional conference, through the laying-on-of-hands of the Bishops present. As of the 2012 General Conference, Bishops are required to retire if they reach age 68 on or before July 1 in the year of jurisdictional conferences.
In 2019, at a special governing General Conference, 53 percent of United Methodist delegates reaffirmed the church’s affirmation of sex only within marriage between a husband and a wife.
After the United Methodist Church voted at its General Conference in 2024 to remove the denomination's prohibitions on hosting same sex weddings, Senior Minister Rev. Paul Rasmussen announced that Highland Park UMC would continue to prohibit same-sex wedding ceremonies on its property, stating that "For 108 years, through 13 different senior ministers, Highland Park has always maintained the ...