The vote came during the denomination’s first General Conference in ... She said she found a home in the United Methodist Church in Charlotte — “a place where I could love Jesus in the ...

The UMC General Conference is convening in Charlotte for ... will be the first and major test of a new model of cooperation. The United Methodist Church will bear the same name after May 3 ...

This option, which could be adopted at the Charlotte meeting ... who has served as senior minister at First United Methodist Church of Santa Monica, Calif., for 26 years, says she hopes moving ...

and that debate will be significant when Methodists gather in Charlotte next week for its general conference. The United Methodist Church has lost a quarter of its member churches in recent years ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The United Methodist Church reversed a 48-year-old policy prohibiting the use of church funds to “promote the acceptance of homosexuality,” the first of several key efforts ...

The delegates in Charlotte are expected to vote on ... LGBTQ bans are focused strongly on the conference. First United Methodist Church in Pittsburgh, for example, held a commissioning service ...

Augustine’s First United Methodist Church ... South Carolina conference to start a church here. The first church, located on Charlotte Street, was built in 1829. Three other locations were ...