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The process for disaffiliation is implemented through Paragraph 2553 in the UMC Book of Discipline as adopted by the 2019 general conference of the United Methodist Church.
The United Methodist Church (UMC) has historically regarded itself as a “big tent” denomination. But as member churches across the United States vote to disaffiliate from the UMC, the ...
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 North Carolina Conference is an Annual Conference (a regional episcopal area, similar to a diocese) of the United Methodist Church. This conference serves the eastern half of the state of North Carolina , with its administrative offices and the office of the bishop located in Garner, North Carolina .
The United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) is the global humanitarian aid and development organization of the United Methodist Church (UMC). UMCOR is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization operated under the auspices of the General Board of Global Ministries.
Hope Morgan Ward (born September 18, 1951) is a bishop of the United Methodist Church, elected and consecrated to the episcopacy in 2004. She has served as the Bishop of North Carolina since 2012. Biography
In the North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church, which covers 56 counties in the eastern half of the state, churches had until Sept. 20 of this year to ask to disaffiliate if they ...
Third and final report on UMC disaffiliations looks at the geography of the denomination's current splintering and its parallels to 1844 schism.