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Arkansas United Methodists voted Saturday to allow an additional 67 congregations to disaffiliate from the denomination -- bringing the total number that have left in the past six months over "issues related to human sexuality" to over 100.

The Arkansas United Methodist denomination shrunk by 67 churches Saturday in Hot Springs losing Midland Heights and Greenwood churches

Arkansas United Methodists voted Saturday to allow an additional 67 congregations to disaffiliate from the denomination -- bringing the total number that have left in the past six months over "issues related to human sexuality" to over 100.

Arkansas United Methodists voted Saturday to allow an additional 67 congregations to disaffiliate from the denomination -- bringing the total number that have left in the past six months over "issues related to human sexuality" to over 100.

A special session of the Arkansas Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church will vote today on whether to allow 67 of its 564 congregations to leave the denomination.

The Arkansas Conference of the United Methodist Church voted this morning in Hot Springs to allow a bloc of 61 congregations to disaffiliate from the denomination. The departures of three other churches were approved in subsequent votes.

The Arkansas Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church has ratified the disaffiliation requests for all 67 congregations that wished to break from the church.