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On November 5, 2025, the United Methodist Council of Bishops announced that UnitedMethodist voters on four continents have ratified a major restructuring of the denomination thatsupposedly aims to put the United Methodist Church’s different geographical regions on equalfooting. Under the old structure, annual conferences outside the United States were organizedinto central conferences, while within the […]

RESOLUTION CALLING FOR A “NO” VOTE ON REGIONALIZATION, 2025! Presented by Rev. Dr. Kennedy Mukwindidza. President of Theological Voice of Africa. WHEREAS The proposed plan to regionalize The United Methodist Church forwarded to the members of the annual conferences by the General Conference of 2020/24 is an echo of the colonial past of Africa with

Every system is perfectly designed to get the results that it does – W. Edwards Deming This year, delegates from all United Methodist Church (UMC) Annual Conferences will be voting on four constitutional amendments that were passed at last year’s General Conference, but need to be ratified. One of the amendments, Worldwide Regionalization, has been

How White Anglo-Saxon Protestants used a trick of colonialism to prevent Africans from taking over control of the United Methodist Church Last year, 862 delegates from around the world came to Charlotte, North Carolina for the 2020/24 United Methodist Church’s General Conference from April 23rd – May 3rd. Some of the countries that were represented

In 2019 I was elected to be a delegate to the United Methodist Church’s 2020 General Conference, representing the laity of the North Georgia Conference. However, due to the coronavirus, the General Conference was rescheduled to August 2021. And then, because of the ongoing pandemic, it was pushed to August 2022, and eventually until April

PRACTICING THE WAY!January 2025. We of the Theological Voice of Africa, both in diaspora and on the continent, have realized that the current crisis in the United Methodist Church in general, and especially on the continent of Africa, is based on a lack of transparency, dialogue, and democratization of ecclesial information between clergy and laity.

    The mission of The United Methodist Church and its predecessor bodies on the continent of Africa has developed through missionaries, mostly from the United States and from Europe. With the exception of Liberia as a colony for freed slaves, there was no mutual benefit from migration towards and from the U.S. as in Europe

By Odell Horne, Jr. In 1896 the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a decision by the Louisiana Supreme Court that equal, but separate railroad cars for black and white citizens were legal within the state. This case was known as Plessy vs. Ferguson, and it added to a growing wave of segregation laws in the U.S.