[decal]

"According to UMC, the church only lost 34,000 members in 1999 and 36,500 in 2000, but saw 69,000 leave in 2003 and 71,000 leave in 2004. Such attrition is nothing to sneeze at when total membership is less than 8.2 million."

And how many just stopped going, like I did? I'm still listed as a member, but I haven't been to a UMC service in almost 20 years.

They may as well replace the M with a U...

[nopardons]

When they became the home of the antiwar movement and I found out that the nearest Methodist church in Chicago was GAY, in 1973, when we moved there, they lost me. John and Charles are whirling in their graves!