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Aside from outstanding questions about churches outside the U.S., this latest decision cements the ongoing trajectories for the UMC and its more conservative counterpart, the Global Methodist Church.
The Rev. Keith Boyette, who is the Global Methodist Church’s top executive, said it has registered about 4,100 U.S. churches so far — former UMC churches as well as new ones organized by ...
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.
When Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast in 2005, Harvey organized Memorial Drive Church's outreach efforts to help people who had fled from Louisiana amid the storm's devastation. [3] By 2009, Harvey was serving as director of missional excellence for the Texas Conference, United Methodist Church. [4]
In 2022 Frazer's congregation voted to disaffiliate from the United Methodist Church and affiliate with the Free Methodist Church. The vote was ratified by the UMC Alabama-West Florida Annual Conference on June 14, 2022 and Frazer was received at that time by the Free Methodist Church. The clergy on staff also reaffiliated with the Free ...
An online meeting Saturday by the Florida Conferences of the United Methodist Church will decide requests by 46 churches statewide. Jacksonville congregations want to break from United Methodist ...
The Texas Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church is the regional body of congregations and ministries in East Texas, from Texarkana west to approximately Cedar Creek Lake in the north, Thorndale in the west, and Bay City in the southwest and down to the Gulf Coast and back east to the Louisiana border.
Around 16% of all of Mississippi's United Methodist Churches that were members coming into 2023 are likely to be allowed to leave the fold on Saturday. 140+ more MS United Methodist churches set ...