by Madeline White | Feb 18, 2023 | General Conference, News
February 18, 2023 A Special Called Annual Conference session was held on February 18, 2023 for the Virginia Annual Conference membership to consider the ratification of 34 local churches seeking to disaffiliate from The United Methodist Church over matters of human...
by Brenda Capen | Dec 14, 2022 | General Conference, News
By Heather Hahn, UM News Key points: The United Methodist Church’s Judicial Council concluded that no provision in church law allows for a General Conference to be canceled. The church court designated the coming legislative assembly scheduled for 2024 as the...
by Brenda Capen | Oct 31, 2022 | General Conference, News, SEJ 2022, Virginia News
As a reminder, the 2022 Southeastern Jurisdictional Conference (SEJ) takes place on November 2-4 at Lake Junaluska, NC. The Southeastern Jurisdiction of United Methodist Church is a regional body comprised of 14 conferences, including the Virginia Conference. This...
by Brenda Capen | Oct 3, 2022 | AC 2022 October, General Conference
As a reminder to the Virginia Annual Conference members, on Saturday, October 29, 2022, two Special Annual Conferences will be held: At 9 a.m, an Annual Conference will convene for the sole purpose of closing church property using Paragraph 2549.3. At 9:30 a.m., an...
by Brenda Capen | Sep 1, 2022 | General Conference, News, Virginia News
In recent weeks, the Virginia Conference has received more than two dozen letters from an organization called the National Center for Life and Liberty (NCLL) demanding that 26 churches be able to promptly disaffiliate under Paragraph 2548.2 of the Book of Discipline...
by Brenda Capen | Aug 25, 2022 | General Conference, News, Team Jeremiah, Virginia News
On August 23, 2022, the Judicial Council, The United Methodist Church’s top court, issued a strong and clear ruling that churches seeking to disaffiliate over matters of human sexuality must do so under Paragraph ¶ 2553 of the Book of Discipline. The 2019 General...
