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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.

I should tell you I have a girlfriend that graduated from a Catholic Seminary.She worked as the head of Chaplin services at a Catholic Hospital for years..When her job was elimated she was hired as an associate Pastor at a UM church..She is still an RC..still goes to mass every week end..and then preaches at the UM church.. I know of a Nazarene Holiness pastor that Pastored a UM Church (til it grew to 100..then they pulled him and put in one of theirs)

The UM is a doctrinal mess!

the Confessing Movement

Do you know if they have any connection to the "Konfessions Leute" (sp?) in Germany? After 35 years, I'm still trying to figure out who they are (where they fit into the body of believers.)