SW AG80 said:
Our church in San Antonio met with all 4 pastors today. Each pastor announced they would leave the UMC regardless of the vote of the church. The Church Council announced their recommendation that Coker UMC vote to disaffiliate
More people were there at 4:00 than I have seen in church in a long, long time. Lots of applause when each pastor gave his reasons for disaffiliating.
Soooo different from our church. We never had a meeting with all the pastors until it was kind of forced on them, but even then it was an open church council meeting that was little publicized. We had the district superintendent speak, but no questions were allowed, and that was just to determine IF we would have a vote.
It was painfully obvious what the sr pastor was determined to have happen, and the council chairman is a very milquetoast non-confrontational type who never actually too a stand at all.
So far only one assoc pastor has left, and that's all I expect to happen.