The exodus continues

Good news from Louisiana as reported by The Christian Post,  

Nearly 100 United Methodist Church congregations in Louisiana had their disaffiliation votes ratified by the regional conference last weekend, joining hundreds of others nationwide that have left the mainline Protestant denomination in the last year amid a schism over homosexuality. 

UMC’s Louisiana Annual Conference voted to approve the departure of the 95 congregations during a special called session held on Saturday. The session was called "for the sole purpose of voting on the Louisiana Conference Board of Trustees recommendations for the churches disaffiliating per paragraph 2553."

The disaffiliations will go into effect on Wednesday.

...Among the churches that had their disaffiliation votes approved is the First United Methodist Church of Shreveport, one of the state's largest Methodist churches. FUMC Shreveport held a meeting in April, where 84% of over 1,100 congregants voted in favor of disaffiliation.

...In March, a judge ruled against a lawsuit seeking to stop churches from disaffiliating from the Louisiana Conference. Pastors sued the Louisiana Conference and its board of trustees, taking issue with the disaffiliation process.

Like Pharaoh, some UMC bishops cannot accept the Lord's will in this. Good to see that the courts in Louisiana let God's people go.

But in Ohio things are going smoother also from The Christian Post, 

The Western Ohio Conference of the UMC, which oversees congregations mostly west and south of Columbus, voted to allow 172 out of approximately 960 congregations to disaffiliate at the 2023 West Ohio Annual Conference over the weekend...

The approval follows the disaffiliation of 80 congregations from the conference during a special session last year. 

I see that the total number of congregations leaving the UMC is now over 5000!

"Exodus, movement of ja people."