The UMC does NOT recognize wiccan ceremonies.
December 6, 1999 charges against Webb and Kraus for practicing a spirituality contrary to the teaching of the Methodist church: croning ritual was just a birthday party and therefore should not be subject to public scrutiny.
She did not take part in Wiccan rituals as a practice.
Much of the media attention about goddess worship in churches first focused on an event held in Minneapolis in 1993 called the Reimagining Conference. Most mainline churches, except the United Church of Christ, have withdrawn their funding of the continuing Reimagining conferences.
Re: “The UMC does NOT recognize wiccan ceremonies.” please see http://ucmpage.org/articles/wicca_story7.html.
You are right, OFFICIALLY the UMC doesn’t endorse paganism or wicca. Just like homosexuality, they discipline mildly or not at all. Tolerance breeds assent.