But over 6,000 U.S. congregations have left the United Methodist Church since 2019, according to an unofficial tally by the United Methodist News Service. Over 4,000 of them have left in 2023 alone.

More than half of the United Methodist churches across Alabama have disaffiliated from the denomination, and the signs are becoming obvious – churches are literally changing their signs ...

Sun United Methodist Church on Louisiana 21 in rural St. Tammany Parish is one of 58 congregations leaving the national denomination and will become Sun Methodist Church on Jan. 1.

one without the cross and flame logo of the UMC. Last month, the vote of their church, along with 58 others in Louisiana, to disaffiliate from the United Methodist Church was approved, part of a ...

The UMC Conference also noted that churches will be responsible for hiring their own pastors and must remove the words “United Methodist” and the cross and flame symbol from the properties.

The flame is shown Friday, June 30, 2023, removed from the flame and cross logo on the side of Wesley United Methodist Church as well as on a … Disaffiliation process ...

Moss Bluff, LA (KPLC) - Inclusion of LGBTQ clergy and same-sex marriage has divided members of The United Methodist Church for years. “The reasons that they are choosing to disaffiliate are over the ...

DECATUR — Residents traveling south on Main Street in Decatur on Tuesday may have noticed crews removing the flame portion of a giant cross towering over Grace United Methodist Church.