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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 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 ...
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.
Prior to the United Methodist Church's May 2024 General Conference, the UMC had rules, found in the Book of Discipline, that prohibited same-sex unions and the ordination of noncelibate homosexuals. Many progressive UMC leaders and churches, especially in the United States, are supportive of gay marriage and ignored the injunctions in the Book ...
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.
The 2023 conference saw the official disaffiliation of 132 congregations, following ongoing discussions about the UMC's stance on homosexuality. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Most of the congregations went on to form the Global Methodist Church .
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 ...
Weekend vote ends mass exodus of MS Methodist churches for 2023. See UMC churches leaving ... 23 in 2021 and 14 in 2022. ... It was reported to its members by email by Christ United Methodist ...