That may not be the last African conference of the United Methodist Church to vote to leave.
Many Christians outside the U.S. received their Christianity from much older classes of Christian missionaries that still held closer to traditional biblical understandings, and those understandings continued as those places established their own local church conferences.
Besides the Ivory Coast Methodist Conference, there are about 4 million more United Methodist congregants in other African countries and millions more in other Methodist denominations outside the United Methodist Church.
I can imgaine some in Africa who leave the United Methodist Church will join the newsly forming Global Methodist Church, which is being put together the “traditionalist” congregations that have been leaving the United Methodist Church the past few years, and some will join with other traditional Methodist denominations that have a good presence in Africa.
I see this process with the United Methodist Church and those leaving it as part of the separating of the wheat from the chaff. The chaff are gloating right now, but won’t be gloating in time.
Mexican Methodists I am sure will follow suit.