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By Heather Hahn
Sept. 9, 2019 | UM News (UMNews.org)
A United Methodist church in Kenya unanimously voted to identify as reconciling — making it the first African congregation to do so.
With the Sept. 1 vote, First United Methodist Church Moheto has chosen to associate with Reconciling Ministries Network — an unofficial United Methodist advocacy group that seeks full equality of LGBTQ individuals in the life of the church. The congregation’s vote was 180-0, with two members absent because of illness.
"First United Methodist Church Moheto has taken the step to formalize what we have been doing in the society as a visible voice for the voiceless for over 12 years,” said the Rev. Kennedy Mwita, the congregation’s senior pastor and a former district superintendent in the Kenya-Ethiopia Conference.
MUTARE, ZIMBABWE [from UnitedMethodistBishops.org] - Bishops in Africa have vowed that The United Methodist Church will continue in Africa even after the 2020 General Conference.
Therefore, the bishops have resolved not to support any proposed legislations or plans that call for dividing or dissolving The United Methodist Church.
“We do not support any legislation that calls for the dissolution of The United Methodist Church. We uphold our values as a connectional and worldwide church committed to ‘Making disciples of Jesus Christ, for the transformation of the world’,” the bishops said in a rehash of a statement made in 2018.