The SC United Methodist Conference now has until June 4 to file its response over disaffiliation with the Supreme Court days before it meets in Greenville.

Horeb United Methodist Church in Lexington to cast ballots in the 2016 Republican presidential primary. Matt Rourke AP The largest Methodist church in South Carolina will soon sever its connection ...

Churches in South Carolina have not been immune to those ... But “the mission of The United Methodist Church has not changed,” Holston said. “The mission of the church is to make disciples ...

So church members began considering ... of churches “that are no longer able to function as United Methodist congregations.” South Carolina and other conferences have used as a pretext to ...

GREENVILLE — As Easter approaches, many South Carolina Methodist congregations are worshiping under new names in the same sanctuaries they’ve called home for generations — and now with the ...

The United Methodist Church is facing a theological split over sexuality. The prospect of permitting same-sex marriages and the ordination of openly gay clergy has not been received well by some ...

South Carolina’s United Methodist conference holds individual church properties in trust for the United Methodist Church, and those churches revert to the denomination if the congregations ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The United Methodist Church, the largest mainline Protestant denomination in the U.S., lost about a quarter of its total churches between 2019 and 2023 due to ...

When it comes to leaving the United Methodist Church denomination in South Carolina, there is no clear path for congregations that don’t see eye to eye with church leaders. In fact, there may ...

The largest Methodist church in South Carolina will soon sever its connection to the country’s largest Methodist denomination. The congregation at Mt. Horeb United Methodist Church in Lexington ...