United Methodist Church

Fifty-five congregations in Oklahoma are disaffiliating from the United Methodist Church after delegates voted at a conference to approve the process.

The Holston Conference in Tennessee has approved the disaffiliation of 264 churches from the United Methodist Church.

Per UM News, it’s the highest number of congregations that have come together in a single lawsuit to the regional body of the United Methodist Church (UMC) amid a long-standing debate on LGBT issues. 

The UMC North Carolina Conference has shut down a small, local historic congregation planning to vote to disaffiliate from the mainline denomination.

United Methodists in Eastern Europe and Central Asia have started the process of disaffiliation from the mainline Protestant denomination following several U.S. churches that have done the same.

A group of 38 church congregations is leaving the United Methodist Church and suing the denomination over its disaffiliation procedures.

A 2,600-member Alabama megachurch has voted to disaffiliate from the United Methodist Church over the mainline denomination’s theological direction.

A Texas megachurch that previously attempted to disaffiliate from the United Methodist Church without a congregational vote has now successfully voted to leave the denomination.

More than 1,800 United Methodist churches in the United States have left the denomination since 2019 over disagreements about the body’s stance on LGBT issues, according to new data.

The largest United Methodist Church in South Carolina announced plans to leave the mainline denomination over an ongoing debate on homosexuality in the church.