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When progressives lost at the 2019 United Methodist General Conference thanks to African votes, a bishop referred to the traditionalist agenda as a “virus.” But Global Methodism sees Africa as ...
The UMC General Conference is gathering in Charlotte to decide on legislation expected to shape the long-term future of the nation’s largest mainline Protestant denomination following a historic ...
With regard to the membership of Annual Conferences of the Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection, the 2014 Book of Discipline states: [1]. The voting membership of the conference shall include the following: all elders on the stationed, reserve, and superannuated lists; all conference preachers elected to elders’ orders; all conference preachers serving as pastors of organized Allegheny ...
¶200 of The Book of Discipline of the Free Methodist Church states that "The general conferences are the governing bodies of the Free Methodist Church. Each general conference shall consist of at least one annual conference or may, when necessary, make alternative provision for caring for annual conference functions as provided for in ¶220.2."
Bishop Bill McAlilly talks to the congregation during the annual Tennessee-Western Kentucky Conference of the UMC at First United Methodist Church in Murfreesboro, Tenn., Monday, June 17, 2024.
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.
A central conference is one of seven annual conferences organized by the United Methodist Church outside of the United States.Composed of equal numbers of lay and clergy members, they connect annual conferences "for common ministry, adapt regulations as the conditions in the respective regions may require, and elect bishops... and fix their tenure."
The biggest unknown is how UMC churches in the Global South (Africa, Asia, and South America) will respond after the next General Conference in late April 2024.