A regional body of The United Methodist Church has implemented a reaffiliation policy for congregations that have left amid the denomination-wide schism over homosexuality.
The UMC Alabama-West Florida Conference implemented the new reaffiliation policy earlier this month, acting off of a resolution passed at its annual session in June.
Conference Communications Director Mary Catherine Phillips told The Christian Post on Thursday that the conference had no reaffiliation process before the policy was introduced.
“The United Methodist Book of Discipline, paragraph 259, provides guidance for new churches in the UMC but the financial pieces of reentry were not outlined, so it would have been on a case-by-case basis,” she explained.
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