Town Hall Info Meeting – View Recap, Survey Results, and Other Documents

On Sunday, April 30, UUMC held a Town Hall Information Meeting to learn about the current status of our church and of disaffiliations and reorganization within the greater United Methodist Church. The following panel members will provided information and updates: Rev. Joy Barrett, pastor of Chelsea First UMC and Michigan Conference Delegation Member to the General Conference; Rev. John Boley, Special Assistant to the Bishop for the Michigan Conference, and Peter Berg, UUMC church member.

View the Town Hall MEETING RECAP here.

View the Town Hall SURVEY RESULTS here.

Below are websites, articles, links, and other documents shared at the Town Hall:

Agenda

Documents shared by Rev. John Boley

Brief Glossary of Commonly Used Terms

Stay UMC

#BeUMC

https://www.umc.org/en/who-we-are/our-people/beumc

Michigan Conference

#Proud to be UMC

Aggregate report from the General Council of Finance and Administration about all church closures, for any reason, from 2019 to present. Pages 5-6 are the pages with disaffiliation statistics. This was last updated March 23 (updated monthly)

Report on Disaffiliating United Methodist Churches through 2022: Comparing Similarities and Differences