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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.
The GMC general conference also chose a new way to handle bishops. United Methodist bishops, as in most denominations, preside over geographic regions. United Methodist bishops, as in most ...
The upcoming UMC General Conference, which runs April 23 to May 3, is entering uncharted territory as the denomination deliberates potential solutions to its current conflicts.
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.
An annual conference is a regional decision-making body within various Methodist denominations. Conferences are a key characteristic of the connexional (connectional) system of government in Methodism. Annual conferences are composed primarily of the clergy members and a lay member or members from each charge (a charge is one or more churches served by a minister under appointment by the ...
On May 3, 2024, the General Conference of the United Methodist Church voted to remove prohibitions against same-sex marriages, allowing congregations and clergy to celebrate same-sex marriages. [ 128 ] [ 129 ] The vote does not require clergy to perform same-sex marriages, but gives clergy the option to perform same-sex weddings if they choose ...
The UMC General Conference will convene in Charlotte for two weeks starting April 22 to vote on a proposed budget reduction and other legislation expected to shape the long-term future of the ...
On April 23, 1968, the United Methodist Church was created when the Evangelical United Brethren Church (represented by Bishop Reuben H. Mueller) and The Methodist Church (represented by Bishop Lloyd Christ Wicke) joined hands at the constituting General Conference in Dallas, Texas.