BONUS BLOG: Why Regionalize the United Methodist Church?

Take a moment here with what colleague Ginger Gaines-Cirelli says about our United Methodist Regionalization in this excerpt —

Worldwide regionalization, supported by 78% of General Conference delegates, is not the answer to all the issues needing to be meaningfully addressed as we move into the future. But it provides the framework to accomplish several important things. 

It allows the worldwide church — including the 75% of U.S. churches who did not leave the denomination — to remain United Methodist in a new connectional way. 

Regionalization also assures greater self-determination for all regions within the connection and decentralizes the United States in General Conference deliberations. 

General Conference gatherings can focus on the things that matter most of all, the core tenets of our faith and the human concerns we share across all the places and cultures in which we live and serve. 

SOURCE: https://www.umnews.org/en/news/putting-hope-in-the-harder-thing?fbclid=IwY2xjawER5WRleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHQrC_6nUcplRxdc1Y1DPONbx4wYReLUiNZgUXhuarM3Jup0PSFXWTQFw-w_aem_JiPvJoBbkyk0nayEetYgsg

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