General Conference organizers are looking at strategies to prevent further delays of The United Methodist Church’s top lawmaking assembly beyond 2024.
At its online meeting March 28, the Commission on the General Conference approved the formation of two strategy teams — one focused on visas and the other on logistics.
With the new teams, the commission members hope to overcome the two main obstacles that have blocked General Conference from going forward amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
“I am definitely in favor personally that we have a General Conference in which we are all in the same space,” said the Rev. Juliet Spencer, the commission member who proposed the strategy teams.
“I just don’t want us to be caught two years from now or a year and a half from now saying, ‘Oops, we still can’t have it in person.’”
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