Churches Leaving United Methodist Church 2024. When regional conferences ratified the last batch of disaffiliations, the tally came to 5,642 congregations departing in 2023 and a total of 7,659 over the past four years, according to united. The united methodist church has been undergoing a major upheaval as more than 7,000 congregations across the country, one quarter of the total, decided whether to.
In june 2023, 113 churches across the state left the denomination. The united methodist churchโs highest court has ruled that congregations seeking to leave the denomination over theological differences cannot do so via a church closure.