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The Global Methodist Church welcomes Scott Jones, who led Methodists in Texas and had advocated for the “extreme center” and “staying at the table.”

(RNS) — He isn't the first bishop to leave the United Methodist Church for the fledgling conservative denomination. But his exit has arguably caused the greatest stir.

A megachurch in Texas that tried to leave The United Methodist Church without a congregational vote has now held that vote.

Collierville United Methodist Church fell short of the 67% needed to leave the denomination, which has lost thousands of churches since 2019.

A megachurch in Texas that tried to leave The United Methodist Church without a congregational vote has now held that vote.

Asbury Chapel is a new Global Methodist church-start in Gainesville.

For the first time Friday and Saturday, hundreds of clergy and laypeople from dozens of churches in West Texas gathered as Global Methodists.

(RNS) — An analysis of departing churches suggests the country’s second-largest Protestant denomination will be weakened, but it is unlikely to break.

The initial departures, mostly concentrated in the South, represent around 6 percent of the denomination—not as dramatic as the “schism” some feared.

The Methodist church is splitting into "United Methodist" and "Global Methodist."