Mountain Sky Protocol for Disaffilation in 2022; votes to approve disaffiliation were taken in October, 2022, when 6 disaffiliations were approved.
Arkansas Conference Current Landscape
- Information Regarding Disaffiliation
- The Disaffiliation Process
- If a Church Conference Is Held to Vote on Disaffiliation
- If a Church Votes to Disaffiliate
Northwest Texas Conference
- NW Texas Conference has lost around 75% of its local churches through disaffiliation, in contrast to the national average around 7%. Steve Harper has a blog reflection about how this happened. Read "A Soil Prepared" from UM-Insight.
- Given the high percentage of local churches who have left the UMC, this Conference has much about these transition times:
Central Texas Conference Process and Resources
- Clergy Withdrawal FAQ
- Trustees Process for Liabilities for Disaffiliating Churches
- Disaffiliation Meetings Recordings and Presentations
- FAQ
- My church is disaffiliating. I want to stay UMC: what can I do?
- Disaffiliation petitions considered in September, 2022 Special Called AC
Baltimore-Washington Conference
- Resources for Disaffiliation
- BWC Discernment Process for Local Churches (PDF)
- Process for Disaffiliation
Text of Paragraph 2553 as certified from the 2019 General Conference (Cokesbury official addendum, page 4). Note that this paragraph may not be used for disaffiliation after December 31, 2023.
The Council of Bishops have designated this paragraph as the one to be used for disaffiliation. Use of 2548.2 is not usually applicable.
Note these Judicial Council rulings: Decisions 1379 (AC role); 1385 (effective date); 1401 (validity); 1420 (no amendments); 1421 & 1433 (AC must ratify); 1422 ("conscience" not questioned); 1423 (clergy may move the petitions); 1424 & 1425 (additional terms OK); 1444 (ACs cannot disaffiliate); see this page (March, 2023).