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As an alternative to disaffiliation, at least five regional U.S. conferences authorized or were interested in allowing churches to continue leaving the denomination through a church closure policy
The UMC General Conference is set to meet again in April 2024. “We can move on,” the Rev. Carolyn Moore, whose Georgia congregation was among 263 churches in Dease’s conference that ...
N.J. Methodist Conference says it is treating dissenters fairly. The lawsuit is not officially served on the conference. The Rev. James Lee, its communications director, responded to the case ...
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.
Third and final report on UMC disaffiliations looks at the geography of the denomination's current splintering and its parallels to 1844 schism.
The North Alabama Conference is an Annual Conference (a regional episcopal area, similar to a diocese) of the United Methodist Church. This conference serves approximately 300 UMCs in the northern half of the state of Alabama , [ 1 ] with its administrative offices and the office of the bishop located in Birmingham, AL .
In 2023, a few congregations of the United Methodist Church left that denomination to join the Congregational Methodist Church due to a polarization that occurred between traditionalist Methodist clerics and those with progressive tendencies. [5] [6] [7] In 2024 they were followed by numerous others.
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 ...