A man has been sentenced in connection to a shooting case. On Wednesday (February 7), 30-year-old Craig Alan Blackwell, Jr. of Statesville appeared in Iredell S
Calvary Memorial Methodist Church in High Point has about 2,500 members, and this past Sunday they voted to disaffiliate with the North Carolina Western Conference of UMC. That move can't be completed until at least November.
A Cobb County Superior Court judge sided with 185 churches and said the courts could under the First Amendment decide some disputes involving churches.
Separation agreements signed by 192 churches – 69 in the Piedmont Triad – list the amounts they must pay to leave UMC because they disagree with the denomination's position on same-sex marriage and LGBTQ+ ministers. Some will pay more than $200,000.