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The United Methodist Church General Conference, the denomination's top legislative assembly, gathers for second and final week for major policy votes.
The United Methodist Church (UMC) has historically regarded itself as a ... It already boasts more than 2,000 congregations and plans to hold its first General Conference in the fall of 2024. The ...
In 2019, at a special governing General Conference, 53 percent of United Methodist delegates reaffirmed the church’s affirmation of sex only within marriage between a husband and a wife.
With regard to the membership of the General Conference of the Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection, the 2014 Discipline, states: [1]. The voting members of the General Conference shall be the same as those who are credentialed in paragraph 63 of the Discipline, and the annual conference and quadrennial conference business may be conducted concurrently.
For the Postponed 2020 General Conference, held April 25-May 3, 2024, RMN jointly formed the UM Queer Collaborative, a coalition with the United Methodist Queer Clergy Caucus, Affirmation, the United Methodist Queer Clergy Caucus (UMQCC) and the Queer Delegates Caucus (QDC), in order to advocate for votes in favor of amendments to church law ...
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."
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 ...
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 ...