First United Methodist Church of LaGrange to vote on disaffiliation

On Sunday afternoon, members of the First United Methodist Church in LaGrange will vote on whether to remain affiliated with the United Methodist Church.

Since 2019, thousands of the nearly 30,000 UMC in the United States have held similar votes. According to the church, at least 6,225 have chosen to disaffiliate so far.

Many of those disaffiliations are from the South, including Georgia, which has seen 362 exits since 2019, according to a running count on the church’s news website, umnews.org.In a study published by the Lewis Center for Church Leadership in June, the departing churches are predominantly from the church’s […]

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