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The sheer scale of disaffiliations in 2023 shifted earlier plans aimed at resolving the crisis at the UMC General Conference, or the denomination’s international legislative body that meets ...
The GMC “warmly welcomes” clergy and congregations leaving, or planning to leave, the UMC from all around the world, and its transitional leadership team is made up of international leaders ...
A policy allowing churches to disaffiliate expired at the end of 2023, so traditionalists are supporting legislative efforts at this UMC General Conference to extend and expand the disaffiliation ...
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After the United Methodist Church voted at its General Conference in 2024 to remove the denomination's prohibitions on hosting same sex weddings, Senior Minister Rev. Paul Rasmussen announced that Highland Park UMC would continue to prohibit same-sex wedding ceremonies on its property, stating that "For 108 years, through 13 different senior ministers, Highland Park has always maintained the ...
It was at this point in time membership in the church grew to about 200 people. Due to discrimination the church was forced to move, and had a hard time finding a permanent place. During this period during the spring and summer of 1969 the church moved first to the Embassy Auditorium, and then a United Methodist Church for two weeks.
Churches that still want to leave the United Methodist Church as part of a splintering in the denomination no longer have a procedural way to do so, or at least with their property in tow ...
The conference took place at Anderson United Methodist Church in Jackson. Bishop Sharma Lewis said after the ratification vote that she hopes there is a time of closure for the conference.