[SeekAndFind]

Grace Fellowship Church of Katy, Texas. In December 2019, the congregation voted to leave the United Methodist Church.

[Ouchthatonehurt]

In the end it is about true charity.

[PeterPrinciple]

My understanding is the church building belongs to UMC.

[ducttape45]

The congregation intends to affiliate with the Free Methodist Church

I hope the Free Methodist church in Texas is more conservative than in other parts of the country because it very quickly going down the same path at the UMC. I should know, I used to attend them and pastored a small FM church.

[Wuli]

Wow. I did not expect this, because I know there are a large number of Liberal UMC Churches working on a Liberal coalition to exit the UMC, and I assumed the UMC breakup would be invoked by them, first and mostly and not from the Conservative side.

[Salman]

From what I can see of the United Methodist in the Midwest, I thought they were already all the way gay.
Rainbow flags flying out front etc. Never been inside one.

[jdsteel]

That is FAR from a “mega church”, which describes a much larger congregation.

That said the UMC is working on “a way forward” that would permit churches to leave the UMC and not have to find a new place to worship. It’s true that the UMC (by the book of discipline) owns all property. That sounds great at first, unless the church has a mortgage. Then they are taking on the payments for a mostly empty building with practically no congregation to support it.

[fwdude]

Despite its vote for the somewhat “conservative” option, any church group that would put up for debate the acceptability of homosexuality, and all the baggage that comes with it, is already profligate.

These conservatives groups should have already been leaving in droves.