by Rev. Dr. Mark Holland, Executive Director, Mainstream UMC
Voting is complete in the conservative South Central Jurisdiction. Within the SCJ, the conservative State of Texas has 5 conservative annual conferences that combine for 44 delegates to General Conference. The Lone Star State has just issued a massive wakeup call to the WCA. Thanks to the Wesleyan Covenant Association for freely publishing their slate of preferred candidates in most conferences, so we can see how they did: they…were…crushed.
For those of you scoring at home, the count in Texas is 30-14. That’s right, in one of the most reliably conservative states in the nation, the WCA managed just 32%. Read the whole blog post.