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Cobb’s Mt. Bethel agrees to pay $13.1 million to leave United Methodist Church

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Mt. Bethel's congregants will not vote on disaffiliation. Under normal circumstances, a two-thirds majority of a congregation must vote in favor of disaffiliation for a church to leave the denomination. The feud began last year when Bishop Sue Haupert-Johnson, who oversees the conference, reassigned Jody Ray, Mt.Bethel's senior pastor.

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Cobb’s Mt. Bethel agrees to pay $13.1 million to leave United Methodist Church

East Cobb’s Mt. Bethel United Methodist Church must pay $13.1 million to the Methodist denomination in order to leave and become an independent church, lawyers involved in the case confirmed.

2 years ago·Atlanta, United States

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