My church disaffiliated, along with 117 other UMC churches (roughly 20%) in Florida.
We are now affiliated with the Global Methodist Church where NO homosexual clergy or unions will be recognized.
AND, Bishops can be fired! They cannot be fired in the UMC, which is how the homosexuals gained power in the church.
Were it not for the AFRican UMC churches voting it down, homosexual clergy and unions would have been “officially” recognized by the UMC — the American bishops were in favor of that policy.
It will be interesting to see how many more Florida UMC churches disaffiliate in the coming years.
My understanding was most of the US members were against the changes. There were more churches with smaller, declining membership that were for it. I believe the UMC will survive on the exit payments, old member donations, and real estate sales for a while, but then decline into irrelevancy.