Nearly one-third of the churches in the North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church disaffiliated from the denomination in a special session on Nov. 19.

Lawson said they are no longer part of the United Methodist Church. According to him, they never agreed to any Trust Clause and will still operate. “We have left them and continued to have ...

Methodist churches seeking disaffiliation - May 6, 2023GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) – Thousands of Methodists in North Carolina will log into a virtual meeting on Saturday and ask that they be ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The United Methodist Church, the largest mainline Protestant denomination in the U.S., lost about a quarter of its total churches between 2019 and 2023 due to disaffiliations ...

First Methodist Church of Irving announced it has joined the traditionalist Global Methodist Church after recently disaffiliating from the United Methodist Church. In a written statement, the ...

A growing schism over LGBTQ+ issues within the United Methodist Church has prompted a quarter of congregations to leave as a Dec. 31 deadline nears.

The United Methodist Church marked a new era of LGBTQ inclusion by voting to lift the bans on LGBTQ clergy and on pastors performing same-sex unions. They also removed the language that said ...