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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 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 ...
Originally church officials expected that a $604 million quadrennial budget would be approved at the General Conference. But now the proposal is reduced to $346.7 million, or a 43 percent cut ...
These delegates are elected by the Annual Conferences and several other specialized bodies within the structure of The United Methodist Church. The General Conference meets on a quadrennial basis, that is, once every four years. Special sessions may be called by the Council of Bishops. List of general conferences of The United Methodist Church
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 ...
In February 2022, the UMC announced that it was examining again postponing the General Conference. 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. The denomination launched on May 1, 2022.
The Tennessee-Western Kentucky Conference lost about 38% of its total churches in 2019 to disaffiliations, according to the Lewis Center for Church Leadership, a research center out of the UMC ...
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.