Alexandria VA?
definitely agree with that.
The UMC hecame nothing more than a liberal Sunday club.
Won't some other UMC or some other Protestant denomination pick it up? I hope so.
That is the author of the story argle-bargling vigorously against what the guy who was actually there said.
"No, no, no, it isn't the gay takedown and takeover that did it! It wasn't the traduction and seduction of the Church by a catamites' cabal! Wasn't, wasn't, wasn't, so there!!" </off foot-stamping>
The town had 2,100 more people in 1900 than it does now. That’s more than a 20% decline in population. I didn’t realize Indiana had a period of population loss. That happened here during the Civil War and on into Reconstruction, and to a much lesser extent during the depths of the Great Depression, but by the late fifties the population was booming.
I was United Methodist until this past summer. I left because an ordained pastor stood up during Annual Conference and said that “no one knows when life begins, but we have women right next to us who need our support in their choice to end an unwanted pregnancy”.
And he was applauded. As soon as I got home from AC, I resigned from the denomination.
Actually, that sounds like the spin the current minister is giving. The story says they lost 80% of the congregation when he was fired. Any business that loses 80% of their customers won’t be around long.
UMC is a dying denomination.
Our married arrogant bully of a choir director had an affair with the married organist at my Methodist hellhole before I fled back to the Catholic Church I was raised in. Then the minister was stealing out of peoples’ purses to finance his drug purchases, showing up sweating bullets or one Sunday he was bright red..............it was a circus
“David Mantor, pastor of the church, said the decision to close the church resulted from falling attendance, membership and financing problems”
When you are no longer the House of God, the pious go somewhere else
**First United Methodist Church in Alexandria**
Which church is next?
Are there any truly social conservative churches north of the Ohio
uhm...same thing isn't it?
God works in mysterious ways...doesn't He?
Mantor said statistics he's seen from United Methodist Church headquarters show a "downward spiral" of membership and donations across the whole UM church for the past 30 years
hmm...seems to me that's about how long the "liberals/progressives" have been holding office so to speak within the denomination...thus we see Father's hand at work. The people need to wake up.