Lighthouse Congregations Guide United Methodists to Where They Can 'Stay UMC'

Disaffiliation has cast gloom over some church members whose congregation votes to leave – and leave them behind if they want to stay in the UMC. Piercing the gloom, however, is a new light emanating from North Carolina that brightens the present and shines on a new future.

Lighthouse Congregations represent a movement to provide a "safe place" for church members who don't want to leave The United Methodist Church and need to recover spiritually and emotionally from disaffiliation stress. How the idea came about also has excited church leaders as the fruit of a new collaboration across annual conference boundaries.

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