Young people share fears, hopes for future church

Young people have likened the current happenings in The United Methodist Church to a divorce with devastating effects on the children, but they asserted there is hope for a bright future.

To thunderous applause, Alejandra Salemi of the Florida Conference said the denomination’s lawmaking assembly is being held “in the midst of what feels like an emotional whirlpool that only something like divorce proceedings can stir up.”

“We’ve tried to call what our church has gone through over the past season many things — a schism, a separation, a split, disaffiliations … and no matter what we call it, it still feels, to me, like a divorce,” she said.

Salemi told delegates attending the postponed 2020 General Conference that the younger generation is feeling the weight of the emotional, mental and spiritual trauma that comes with separation and disaffiliations.

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