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Declining Membership in the United Methodist Church
On January 28, 2006, the North Alabama Conference of the United Methodist Church gathered at Morningstar United Methodist Church, in Chelsea, Alabama, for a special meeting of all pastors and lay delegates from roughly 850 churches comprising its membership. The purpose of the meeting was to vote on a re-districting plan to address the decline in conference membership over the last twenty years. The conference membership roles had shrunk by 30,000 since 1986. With much hand wringing, and over some small but determined opposition, the proposal to reallocate the churches in twelve districts among ten new districts passed by a large majority.
Whether changing the number of districts in the conference will stem the tide of membership losses is still in doubt. There is no doubt about the shrinking membership roles in the North Alabama conference, the United Methodist Church, and most mainline Christian denominations in the......

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