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To: Prov3456

My understanding is even though the GMC has more members, the psUMC will keep the property. Perhaps they will sell some of it back to the UMC. If that is true the quickest breakup is the best because the GMC is subsidizing the psUMC.


17 posted on 03/01/2022 11:12:43 AM PST by alternatives? (The only reason to have an army is to defend your borders.)
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Yes, the plan is for the psUMC to keep the property (because of the "trust clause" within the "Constitution" of the Book of Discipline).

What I wonder is this: if only a few churches in each annual conference leave the psUMC to join the GMC, an annual conference will be able to absorb those costs. What if 100 or more churches leave? That is a lot of property and overhead for an annual conference to absorb. At some point, each psUMC Annual Conference will have more property than they can support. Will the local churches then be able to "buy themselves back" for pennies on the dollar, or less? Only time will tell.

41 posted on 03/01/2022 6:17:54 PM PST by Prov3456
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