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The General Conference 2024 promises to be a consequential meeting for the UMC. A number of challenges face the denomination, and those challenges have only been exacerbated by the postponement of the 2020 meeting. The last year, the UMC has also faced a spate of disaffiliations, local churches who voted to leave the denomination and were given leeway to do so under a 2019 special addendum to the Book of Discipline.

Delegates to United Methodists' first worldwide legislative assembly in five years will consider three major issues known as "the three Rs" — regionalization, Revised Social Principles and removal of "harmful language" against homosexuality.

The United Methodist Church may soon approve the lowest budget for the mainline Protestant denomination in four decades due to the thousands of congregations that disaffiliated over the past couple of years.

The United Methodist Church may soon approve the lowest budget for the mainline Protestant denomination in four decades due to the thousands of congregations that disaffiliated over the past couple of years.

The United Methodist Church is facing a more than 40% cut in its four-year budget due to the exodus of thousands of congregations over policies on ordination and LGBTQ issues, according to the church's official news service.