Over 6,000 congregations have left the UMC out of about 30,000.
But in terms of congregants how big is the loss? The UMC near me, thriving into the seventies with Sunday morning and evening services along with Wednesday now has about 30 regular congregants all well over sixty, mostly seventies. They’ve been dipping into reserves to have a ‘full time’ pastor and have precarious finances as a result.