Columnist Roy S. Johnson on a previous UMC fracture.
was a 19-year-old youth delegate to the annual gathering of the white UMC’s North Alabama Methodist Church UMC Conference at Birmingham Southern College, which is affiliated with the church. The Black Central Alabama UMC conference was held separately. Now 70, Woodfin reached out recently with his recollection of the effort then to bring the two groups together:
“I was one of 12 idealistic youth voting delegates representing each district of the three-day conference. We were selected and supervised by Conference Youth Director Nina Reeves. We all had served on her summer staff at. Before the vote, Nina coached us to mingle with local church delegates and encourage them to consider voting yes. Basically, we were lobbyists. The delegates were very friendly, but I sensed we weren’t changing many hearts and minds.
“The air was full of tension during the voting and counting. I don’t recall the exact numbers, but “no” votes were a large majority. I will always remember hearing a young woman cry out as if her heart was breaking upon hearing the merger was voted down. She was a friend who had worked on Nina’s camp staff with me.
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