[Ward Smythe]

When we were first married, my wife and I looked for a United Methodist Church in Northern Virginia. Needless to say in that area we didn't find an acceptable one. We've not been UM since.

But we have a lot of friends involved in the Good News movement. We also have a lot of college friends who Pastor in the UM Church. There is hope for the UM Church, but that's just not what you'll see in the mainstream media.

[Prov3456]

That's right. I am also involved with the Good News organization.

[xzins]

The Good News movement is the original opposition group within the denomination. Their greatest contribution, IMHO, is their organizing of various "shadow church" agencies.....(1) Sunday School Board with Sunday School literature; (2) Women's Organization to replace UMWomen, and (3) Mission Society for UM's to replace the UMC Board of Global Missions. This shadow denomination has given some pause to the heretics anytime they ever considered some strategies designed to "remove" evangelicals from their midst.

Other major forces in the denomination are the Confessing Movement, and the Unofficial Confessing Movement (whose web page is listed above.).

I've no doubt that this denomination can be recaptured. It will require, however, every little church in every geographic region (annual conference) sending their delegates to each annual conference. So many do NOT send their delegates forward. If they would do so, especially in the years when "General Conference" delegates are chosen, I believe that the voting would be even more lopsided in the direction of pro-life, pro-morality.

Incidentally, I did a quick google search on the west coast Rev mentioned above, Monica Corsaro. I turned up one with a tie to the Democratic Party, another to Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights in her area, and other ties to gay rights and "earth religions" groups.

Her anti-bishop, Galvan, is among the denomination's most heretical.