United Methodist Bishop David Graves, leading a meeting of the Alabama-West Florida Conference for the first time since 193 churches disaffiliated last month, fired up his remaining members with an admonition to move on and win new disciples.
“There are still a lot of people that are part of the Alabama-West Florida Conference,” Graves said on Sunday night during the opening service of the annual conference in Mobile. “God is not finished with us called United Methodists.”
In one day, the Alabama-West Florida Conference went from 511 member churches, most of them in South Alabama, some in the Florida Panhandle, down to 318 after the vote to disaffiliate. In earlier votes, 47 churches had left, includingwith 7,000 members. Doing double duty as a bishop, Graves presides over the South Georgia Conference, which also had 193 churches disaffiliate in one day.
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