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The General Board of Church and Society (GBCS) is a general agency of the United Methodist Church. It is one of four international general program boards of The United Methodist Church as set out the UMC Book of Discipline. The General Board has headquarters on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., and at the Interchurch Center in New York City ...
While the Council of Bishops is the executive branch of church government, it is ultimately the General Conference of the church which constitutes its legislative branch, and that speaks for and sets the policies, missions and ministries of the church through its authority to maintain and change the United Methodist Discipline, the book that ...
Chartered as the National Association of Schools, Colleges and Universities of The United Methodist Church (NASCUMC) in 1976, the organization revised its mission and purpose, expanded its membership, and changed its name in 2020 under the leadership of President Scott D. Miller (also President of Virginia Wesleyan University) and Mark Hanshaw, Associate General Secretary of the General Board ...
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.
Discipleship Ministries, formerly known as the General Board of Discipleship (GBOD), is one of 13 international agencies, boards and commissions of The United Methodist Church. GBOD was established by the 1972 United Methodist General Conference, and in March 2015, officially changed its name. Discipleship Ministries was given the primary ...
There were 142 more of Mississippi's United Methodist Churches that were ratified to disaffiliate on Saturday in Jackson. Mississippi United Methodist Conference's eligible voters agreed to ratify ...
There are 142 churches in Iowa that have left the Iowa Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church over differing beliefs on same-sex marriage and ordaining openly LGBTQ clergy.. Eighty-three ...
Uniting Church in Sweden; United Methodist Church, European regional conferences Central and Southern Europe Central Conference [6] United Methodist Church in Austria; United Methodist Church in Bulgaria; United Methodist Church in Hungary; Northern Europe Central Conference of the United Methodist Church. United Methodist Church in Norway [7]