'We Are Changing to Stay the Same': Huge TX Megachurch Votes to Leave UMC over Homosexuality, Hundreds More Could Join Mass Exodus

Steve Warren : Aug 15, 2022
Faithwire.com

"...With this vote, we are preserving the ministry that we know and love." -Woodlands Methodist Senior Pastor Mark Sorensen

[Faithwire.com] Two large Texas Methodist churches, including a megachurch located north of Houston, voted to disassociate themselves from the United Methodist Church (UMC) because of its ongoing debate over homosexuality. (Image: Unsplash-Nathan Mullet)

The Woodlands Methodist Church has around 14,000 members. The congregation voted Sunday to leave the UMC Texas Annual Conference.

The Woodlands Church announced the results of the vote on the church's website. Out of more than the 3,000 members who voted, 2,678 voted in favor of disaffiliation—96.3% of the total ballots cast. The ballots were collected, counted, and certified by the independent accounting firm of Harper Pearson, Company, PC, of Houston, Texas, the website noted... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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