Good News! The United Methodist Church’s Budget Will Be TINY After Mass Exodus From Denomination
The Revs. Martha E. Vink (left) and Alka Lyall lead a Holy Communion service during an Advent gathering in December 2019 at St. Andrew United Methodist Church in Highlands Ranch, Colo. The two are among the collaborators organizing the Liberation Methodist Connexion, a new denomination that held an online launch event on Nov. 29. Photo courtesy of LMX.
In a bit of good news, the apostate United Methodist Church (UMC) has proposed its smallest budget in 40 years, the result of a mass exodus of churches from the demonic denomination following their decision to become LGBTQ-affirming.
The United Methodist Church in the United States has lost one-fourth of its churches in the last four years over their acceptance of same-sex marriage, in what has become the most significant denominational divide in the country in the last 150 years. According to United Methodist News, 7660 congregations have disaffiliated from the demented denomination, including 5642 this year alone.
The losses result in smaller budgets, resulting in leadership “rethinking ministry expenses at all levels of the denomination” as they wrestle with “the biggest budget drop in the denomination’s history.” In 2016, the General Conference approved a budget of $604M. For 2025-2028, they’re looking at $346M, a reduction of nearly 43%, and their smallest budget since 1984.
The smaller budget means that congregations and special projects will have less funding, a death knell for smaller denominations who will begin to feel the pain of more prominent (and wealthier) churches leaving.
Awesome!