Connectional Table

Connectional Table lives into new vision at Philippines gathering

The October meeting provided a time for fellowship as a worldwide community and space to celebrate and discern the denomination’s new vision.

Connectional Table

Bishop Mande Muyombo, resident bishop of the North Katanga Area, speaks to the opening session of the 2019 special General Conference. Now Connectional Table chair, Muyombo guided the leadership body through a discussion of its proposal to reduce its membership. File photo by Paul Jeffrey, UM News.

Leadership body reconsiders restructuring plan

The United Methodist Church’s Connectional Table, which has stewardship of the denomination’s mission, ministry and resources, is now re-examining its proposed restructuring.

General Church

Members of the Connectional Table lay hands on Bishop Mande Muyombo (center), chair of the Connectional Table, and Judi Kenaston (fourth from right), interim chief connectional ministries officer, during the group’s meeting Feb. 24 in Atlanta. The leadership body helps determine the budget of The United Methodist Church. Photo by Jim Patterson, UM News.

Group plans for budget cuts, regionalization

Meetings of the Connectional Table in Atlanta were productive, with efforts to come up with a consensus budget, move toward a U.S. regional conference and streamline the leadership body’s own membership all moving forward.

General Church

A graphic depicts how giving flows from local churches to annual conferences to the denomination-wide ministries of the global United Methodist Church. In a time of mounting church disaffiliations, the denomination’s financial leaders are trying to develop a church-wide budget that keeps in mind needs at all levels of the denomination. Graphic courtesy of the Connectional Table.

Debate looming on how low budget should go

The two bodies that develop The United Methodist Church’s budget agree cuts are needed, but disagreements are brewing over stewardship in a time of mounting church disaffiliations.

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