More than 100 churches recently left the South Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church without the usual attention that hundreds of departing congregations across the nation have received in ...

(RNS) — A regional body of the United Methodist Church in Georgia will temporarily block member churches from leaving the denomination, citing the spread of “defamatory” misinformation about the ...

May 6—East Cobb's Mt. Bethel United Methodist Church and the regional governing body of the Methodist denomination have reached a tentative settlement to resolve their legal dispute, the two parties ...

The UMC General Conference, the denomination's top legislative assembly, will convene in Charlotte starting April 22 to decide on legislation for the denomination's long-term future. A new budget ...

East Cobb’s Mt. Bethel United Methodist Church must pay $13.1 million to the Methodist denomination in order to leave and become an independent church, lawyers involved in the case confirmed. The ...

The Wesleyan Covenant Association is planning to split from the UMC to form a new “Global Methodist Church.” A vote to split the church was supposed to take place at the UMC’s 2020 general conference, ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- More than 200 Methodist churches in Texas are looking to disaffiliate from the United Methodist Church in a multi-step process that could receive official approval Saturday at ...

Jul. 1—In April, the bishop of the United Methodist Church's North Georgia Annual Conference appointed Steven Usry as the new senior pastor for Mt. Bethel UMC in east Cobb. Usry was scheduled to take ...