Transcription of United Methodist Separation Guide - Dalton Tomich
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United Methodist Separation Guide - Dalton Tomich
WHAT YOUR CHURCH NEEDSTO DO NOWUMC Separation PLAN 2021:INTRODUCTIONOn May 5, 2020, the 862 delegates of the Annual Conferences of the United Methodist Church had planned on attending a General Conference where they would have voted on a proposal to formalize Separation within the denomination. Once approved, local Methodist Churches could decide to stay within the denomination, become independent, or join a new progressive or traditional denomination. Unfortunately, Covid-19 hit, causing the General Conference to be rescheduled a year later. Thankfully, the five key affinity groups who are advocating for formal Separation have affirmed that some variation of a plan of Separation should be adopted at the General Conference in August 2021 and implemented on the Annual Conference level in June 2022.
The United Methodist denomination has advised local churches to wait for the General Conference before taking any action. A majority of the 32,000 local Methodist churches in the United States are simply waiting and doing nothing in hopes that the issues dividing the UMC will
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