Menard’s Methodist church votes to disaffiliate from UMC

  • CHURCH MEMBERS filled the sanctuary of the First United Methodist Church in Menard on Monday. The meeting was called as the congregation’s official vote to disaffiliate from or to remain under the charge of the United Methodist Church organization. Methodist churches across the country will hold the same vote if they have not already. TMN photo.
    CHURCH MEMBERS filled the sanctuary of the First United Methodist Church in Menard on Monday. The meeting was called as the congregation’s official vote to disaffiliate from or to remain under the charge of the United Methodist Church organization. Methodist churches across the country will hold the same vote if they have not already. TMN photo.

    By Paige Wright The First United Methodist Church of Menard (FUMC) was a full house Monday evening. Congregants flocked to the church’s sanctuary to take part in a vote to determine if the church will stay within the denomination of the United Methodist Church organization, or to disaffiliate.

    Church leaders and members of the local FUMC have spent the past two-plus years researching the prospect o…