disaffiliate

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Some 6,182 congregations have received approval to disaffiliate since 2019, according to an unofficial tally by United Methodist News Service, which has been tracking votes by annual conferences.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 6, 2023

A chart from the church’s UM News service shows a total of 4,359 congregations have been approved to disaffiliate, approximately 14% of the denomination’s 30,543 U.S. congregations reported in 2019.

From Washington Times • Jun. 5, 2023

More than 3,500 U.S. congregations have received their local conferences’ permission to disaffiliate from the UMC, according to United Methodist News Service.

From Seattle Times • May 23, 2023

Last month, 38 churches in the Western North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church sued in the state’s Superior Court, demanding they be allowed to disaffiliate from the denomination.

From Washington Post • Dec. 8, 2022

USC strongly criticized the move to disaffiliate and invite first-year students to rush, saying in a statement that such fall recruitment “has been repeatedly shown to be unsafe for new students.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 20, 2022