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With more than 100 congregations already gone and others preparing to depart, the Arkansas Conference of the United Methodist Church is cutting its budget and preparing for a smaller, leaner post-disaffiliation future, officials said this week.
A bilingual, third-generation United Methodist minister with more than a quarter-century of leadership experience has been elected to serve as bishop and will oversee the denomination's Arkansas Conference.
United Methodist Bishop Gary Mueller, who oversees the denomination's churches in Arkansas, will request permission to retire, effective Jan. 1, he announced last week.
A pro-gun control Arkansas United Methodist minister, pretending to be a Second Amendment activist Friday, made remarks so incendiary during an Arkansas annual conference debate on firearms restrictions that state United Methodist officials turned off his microphone and attempted to hide video of the session.