The coming months will provide a fuller picture of the proposals that are up for consideration when The United Methodist Church’s top lawmaking assembly next meets. The long-delayed General Conference is now planned for April 23-May 3, 2024 at the Charlotte Convention Center in Charlotte, North Carolina.
What is already clear is that the global pandemic and U.S. church disaffiliations have reshaped the international meeting originally scheduled in Minneapolis for May 2020.
That year — before COVID shut down international travel and the meeting’s Minneapolis venue — General Conference delegates expected their main concern would be deciding how to split the international, 13-million-member denomination after decades of intensifying disagreement over LGBTQ inclusion.
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