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 “What’s Happening in The UMC?” (part two)

An information and discussion session will be led by PK in the Fellowship Hall on Sunday evening Oct 22 @ 6:30pm. Come and see!

     Part one: Sept 10 @ 6:30
     (online notes at https://kerrfunk.blogspot.com/2023/09 )

The paragraphs are numbered for convenient discussion)

What this is, and what this is not.
- The previous presentation was about how I see What’s been happening in The UMC for the past few years. (just the facts, ma’am)
This is NOT a vote about whether to stay in the UMC or leave the UMC -- by no means are we informed enough or ready to make any such decision today.

- This is a presentation of how I see THE ISSUES behind what’s been happening in The UMC for the past few years.
NOT me trying to tell you what to think
Last time was designed to be unbiased; this time I present MY point of view, MY understanding of the issues.
Keep in mind this is a hotly debated topic among the faithful at all levels of discipleship and education.

- I do not expect everyone to agree with me 100%.
  I do love you, and that will not change.
  I do expect you to do your research, as I have done mine,
  and if necessary, I hope that we can agree to disagree.

“In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.”

- I said at my introduction that I am committed to The United Methodist Church and it is my hope that you are as well.

- And like I said before, and this is not a cop-out: like life, things are messy on multiple levels. There are a number of areas where things simply are not ideal, and there are places where God-loving Bible-believing disciples come to different and opposing conclusions. It’s my goal to have a respectful presentation and open the way for honest and potentially difficult dialogue.

- Prefer questions at the end.

Note: …to share with ALL the transforming love of Jesus Christ

1. I have said that if you ask a northerner what the Civil War was about, slavery. Ask a southerner, state’s rights.

Which is accurate?

The answer is complicated by plantation owners wanting the population bump for government representation while not getting the actual tax burden.

Also it’s worth considering: who fought the war: there were politicians, and officers, and grunts. Young men who joined the cause because they believed in it, young men who joined the cause because someone they knew believed in it, young men who wanted something to do.

“Bottom line,” pinning the Civil War solely on slavery does not give a fully accurate picture.

à Pinning the current strife in The UMC on “homosexuality” does not give a fully accurate picture.

2. What do we mean by homosexuality?

Mutual love and affection between equals of the same sex,
perhaps with desire for monogamy and raising a family.
3. What does the Bible mean by homosexuality?

So regarding the issue of homosexuality, there are a number of ways to examine the topic:
I. A. Biblical language. Malakoi and arsenokoitai.  (1 Cor 6:9, 1 Tim 1:10)
I. B. Biblical language. Hate your family. (Luke 14:26)
I. C. Homosexuality as we know it is not described in the Bible.

II. A. Biblical precedent. genocide, rape (1 Sam 15, Num 31)
II. B. Women preachers. (1 Tim 2) Stone disobedient (Lev 20:13)
II. C. Adam Hamilton “God’s timeless will.”

III. Cultural, and the place of the church in civil legislation. Jews and bacon.

I. A. Two or three instances in NT where a type of same-sex sexual activity is described, using Greek words Malakoi and Arsenokoitai.

4. Malakoi = soft. Actually used to describe fabric. (A man clothed in soft raiment?) Effeminate. The receiving partner. Context: Male cultic prostitute.

5. Arsenokoitai. “man-bed”. A word Paul coined, perhaps based on Lev 20:13, but how accurately do you define a word that somebody made up? Pederast.
Each instance of these words in NT is used in a list of vices not describing mutual relationship, and generally decrying common greed envy gossip pride.
I.A: not a solid linguistic case wrt malakoi and arsenokoitai.

6. I. B. Biblical language. Times we *have* to make an interpretation.
Luke 14:26: must *hate* your father mother sister brother or you cannot be disciple. It does not say prioritize. It says hate. And we have to make a choice.

7. I. C. Homosexuality as we know it is not described in the Bible.
There are several same-sex sexual actions that are decried, along the lines of rape and pederasty and temple prostitution.

Suppose you don’t agree with this interpretation.

8. II. A. When it comes to the Bible there are times when we *must* go against the text. Two examples: 1 Sam 15, Num 31

1 Samuel 15:2-3 This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘I will punish the Amalekites for Mwhat they did to Israel when they waylaid them as they came up from Egypt. 3 Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy[a] all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.’” … and Saul utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

Numbers 31:9-10 9 The Israelites captured the Midianite women and children and took all the Midianite herds, flocks and goods as plunder. 10 They burned all the towns where the Midianites had settled, as well as all their camps. (several verses later Moses orders the execution of all the boys and of all the women who were not virgins, allowing the soldiers to keep the virgins for themselves.)

We call those "war crimes" and imprison those people who commit such acts, as well as those who authorized or planned them.

Numbers 14:18 ‘The Lord is slow to anger, abounding in love and forgiving sin and rebellion. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation.’

Punishing people who have committed no crime themselves violates all notions of justice.

9. II. B. Women preachers.

1 Timothy 2:11-15

11 A woman[a] should learn in quietness and full submission. 12 I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man;[b] she must be quiet. 13 For Adam was formed first, then Eve. 14 And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner. 15 But women[c] will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith, love and holiness with propriety.

That notion is used to this day in conservative Christian sects (Catholicism, Orthodox) and churches (Protestant) to prevent women from holding positions of influence.

Verses from the Bible were also used to support slavery in the southern American States.

Just because something is in the Bible does not mean it is moral.

Also: Lev 20:13 calls for the execution of men who lie with mankind as with a woman (and partner).
Why don’t we do that?

United Methodists proudly ordain women. We believe the call to ministry is not limited to those with XY chromosomes.
If you are opposed to female pastors, you might not find yourself at home in The United Methodist Church. AND, “even the Global Methodist Church” has no plans to limit ordained ministry to men.

10. II. C. Adam Hamilton “God’s timeless will.”
Three buckets: timeless will (love your neighbor), temporal will (much of ritual law), cultural reflection but not God’s will (genocide and rape)

Suppose you don’t agree with this approach.

11. III. Cultural, and the place of the church in civil legislation. Jews and bacon.
Much press in the last decade or so about bakeries not wanting to bake cakes for gay weddings. Kim Davis in Kentucky refusing to file paperwork for legal same-sex weddings. I call this the Jews and bacon premise.

Very basically, Jews don’t eat pork. And Jews do not legislate for all people to not eat pork.
Some Christians are against same-sex marriage, and cite sincerely-held religious convictions. Who should those convictions affect? Christians like them.

12. GMC born out of disagreement with some of the interpretations I’ve presented, and their desire to nuture holiness as they see it. GMC seeks to rigidly discipline members who disagree with their interpretation.

Some additional paragraphs that I gleaned from others:

The arc of Scripture points toward inclusion, not exclusion.

In the Old Testament, those who were sexually different—like eunuchs and barren women—were barred from entering the assembly of the Lord (see Deuteronomy 23:1). But within the text of Scripture, we see greater inclusion of gender and sexual minorities: one of the first Gentile converts to Christianity was an Ethiopian eunuch (see Acts 8:26-39). The New Testament’s trajectory toward greater inclusion of eunuchs offers important precedent for the inclusion of gender and sexual minorities today.

The Bible really has very little if anything to say to concerns over homosexuality. Jesus never addressed the issue as far as we know, for there is no reference to it in the gospels, Acts, or Paul's quotations of Jesus. As such, even if we label homosexuality as sinful, the Bible gives less stress to homosexuality than it does to greed, lying, or failing to offer cold water to the thirsty.

The concerns of Leviticus seem to revolve around issues of ritual purity, creating distance between the fertility cults surrounding Israel, and maintaining well-defined boundaries in life. These are the concerns behind not eating shellfish, prohibitions against eating blood, and keeping distance between worship and contact with bodily fluids.

The Bible does not deal with homosexuality as a relationship between equals. Its authors had no contact with such a relationship. We need to understand, therefore, that rather than looking for texts regarding sexuality to guide our comprehension of how the Bible speaks to homosexuality today, we should instead look at how the Bible addresses human relationships and the incorporation of the marginalized into the larger society. We need to address all people under the guidance of Jesus' declarations of God's love for all people, without exception.

And ten points shared by Matthew Vines:

1.       Condemning same-sex relationships is harmful to LGBT people.

2.       Sexual orientation is a new concept, one the Christian tradition hasn’t addressed.

3.       Celibacy is a gift, not a mandate.

4.       Sodom and Gomorrah involved an attempted gang rape, not a loving relationship.

5.       The prohibitions in Leviticus don’t apply to Christians.

6.       Paul condemns same-sex lust, not love.

7.       The term “homosexual” didn’t exist until 1892.

8.       Marriage is about commitment.

9.       Human beings are relational.

10.    Faithful Christians are already embracing LGBT brothers and sisters.

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I’ve been a United Methodist pastor for twenty years and there’s still so much I’m learning about our wonderful connection and the many ways we have for ordinary people – disciples like you and me – to be involved in all kinds of ministries.

I spent a beautiful autumn Saturday in a church basement with fifteen other people, learning about one specific area of disaster-response ministry provided by The United Methodist Church: the Early Response Team (ERT). You may have heard that our United Methodist Committee On Relief (UMCOR) is first on the ground after a disaster, and last to leave after recovery. I learned that before work teams go in to rebuild, re-roof, and re-paint, ERTs go to disaster sites to “provide a caring Christian presence in the aftermath of a disaster.” Before rebuilding can happen, these specialized teams provide some needed clean-up labor and some equally-important companionship. Grief work and relationships go hand-in-hand with elbow grease and cleaning up.

There are over 400 communities in West Virginia, from the 15 people in Birch River (Nicholas County) to the 50,000 people in Charleston. We have close to a thousand United Methodist Churches across the region. Wouldn’t it be great to have an Early Response Team in your community?

Contact our Conference Disaster Response Coordinator, the Rev. Jim McCune (email: DisasterResponse@wvumc.org) to find out how you can become part of an Early Response Team near you!

Rev. Kerry Bart, Epworth UMC Ripley, Jackson County

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“What’s Happening in the UMC?” part one

An information and discussion session led by PK in the Epworth UMC Ripley Fellowship Hall on Sunday evening Sept. 10, 2023 @ 6:30pm.

(Anticipating part two Oct 22, 2023)

(this blog post is a roughly formatted script of my talking points.
The paragraphs are numbered for convenient discussion)

What this is, and what this is not.
- This is a presentation of how I see What’s been happening in The UMC for the past few years.
NOT a vote about whether to stay in the UMC or leave the UMC.
We could decide those are things we wish to discuss further, but by no means are we informed enough or ready to make any such decision today.

- This is a presentation of how I see What’s been happening in The UMC for the past few years.
NOT me trying to make you agree with me,
rather me trying to give an accurate and hopefully at least relatively unbiased description of lay of the land.
ALSO not a theological address of the issues: seek to understand what’s going on so we’re better equipped to look at things theologically.

- I said at my introduction that I am committed to The United Methodist Church and it is my hope that you are as well.

- Also this is not a cop-out: like life, things are messy on multiple levels. There are a number of areas where things simply are not ideal, and there are places where God-loving Bible-believing disciples come to different and opposing conclusions. It’s my goal to have a respectful presentation and open the way for honest and potentially difficult dialogue.

There are worthwhile things to share about the church through the twentyodd decades before the current day, but I shall begin with a basic timeline of The UMC.

1. The UMC was formed in 1968 with the merger of the Methodist Church and the Evangelical United Brethren Church. Both denominations had histories, and they were not identical in theology or practice or size, and both denominations made significant contributions to the defining of The UMC.

2. The sexual revolution was in full swing, and issues of race were also at the forefront of American culture. Four years after the formation of The UMC, church delegates sought to define The UMC’s positions on a number of cultural issues, and topics were discussed and debated at General Conference. One proposal that was passed stated that “The UMC does not condone the practice of homosexuality and considers this practice incompatible with Christian teaching.” Alongside this statement was another one declaring that homosexual persons “are individuals of sacred worth, created in the image of God.”

3. The next time General Conference met in 1976, same-sex marriage was banned. At General Conference in 1984, language was added to the Book of Discipline that “no self-avowed homosexual” could be ordained. At General Conference in 1988, language was added that banned United Methodist clergy from doing same-sex weddings and United Methodist Church from hosting same-sex weddings. (over two decades no fewer than four statements…)

4. In 2004 the first legal same-sex marriage in the United States was recorded. Many states began adopting same-sex marriage after 2004, with 70 percent of the U.S. population living in states with same-sex marriage by 2014. In 2015 the U.S. Supreme Court struck down state bans on same-sex marriage, legalizing it in all 50 states. 

5. In 2016, after days of heated discussion, the General Conference requested guidance from the Council of Bishops on all issues in the Book of Discipline related to sexuality. The Council of Bishops formed the Commission on the Way Forward, composed of people on opposite sides of the debate as well as centrist, co-chaired by Bishop Sandra Steiner Ball. After a year and a half of discussion, the Commission presented their recommendations, including a “One Church Plan” as well as a “Connectional Conference Plan,” with the Commission supporting the One Church Plan. The OCP would loosen restrictions and allow local Boards of Ordained Ministry to use their own discretion in who they ordain, and allow clergy and churches to make their own decisions regarding same-sex marriage, without compelling anyone to act contrary to his or her position. The Connectional Conference Plan would restructure the church globally into something like co-denominations (my words) that shared general resources and allowed for cultural and theological differences. The UMC’s “supreme court” (Judicial Council) asked that a plan be on the table for not changing positions, and for enforcing disciplines that were already in place.
This became known as the “Traditional Plan.”

6. A special session of General Conference was called in February 2019 in St. Louis to approve a plan. Two-thirds of the U.S. delegates approved the One Church Plan, but it was rejected largely by delegates from Africa, a growing contingent. A Traditional Plan was passed with a 53 percent majority, which puts into place mandatory sentencing of clergy who perform same-sex weddings, as well as mandatory discipline of bishops who allow self-avowed homosexuals to follow their call to ministry. 

7. So. The Special Conference of 2019 resulted in: no change of the decades-old policies of The United Methodist Church, and a tightening of existing disciplinary sentencing.

8. And people looked wearily towards General Conference 2020, where it was anticipated that the One Church Plan or something like it would be revisited, and where an “amicable separation” might be discussed.

Three side notes:
- The Trust Clause (what: property held by denomination. Safeguard against pastors or parishioners going against the brand. We are a connectional church)
- Paragraph 2553, provided (exp 12/23) disaffiliation protocol, with attention to property, pension liabilities, apportionments, and more.
- You’ll notice that I haven’t mentioned any biblical reasoning. Long story short, there are devoted and educated believers on “both sides” of the homosexuality issue, which honestly would best be addressed by another gathering, be it noted that there are different understandings of exactly how the bible is to be used and interpreted.

9. So. As I said, people were looking wearily towards General Conference 2020, where it was anticipated that the One Church Plan or something like it would be revisited, and where an “amicable separation” might be discussed, AND THEN A GLOBAL PANDEMIC HAPPENED. GenConf2020 was postponed. Covid.

10. GenConf2020 was postponed. Dates in 2021 were discussed, but due to a number of factors related to international travel visas and translation/publication of conference materials, it was announced that there would not be a global meeting in 2021, and 2022 was unlikely as well. Which meant that there would be no “official” word on any “church split” discussions. Some United Methodist pastors were violating the Book of Discipline’s prohibition on same-sex marriage, some United Methodist bishops were not enforcing the disciplinary sentencing set at GC19, and a group of frustrated and dissatisfied UMs chose to renounce their membership with The UMC, and in the Spring of 2022 announced the formation of an entirely new and separate Christian denomination called the Global Methodist Church.

Side note: Because of rules, GenConf2020 was postponed not canceled. This means that the GenConf that meets in April 2024 in North Carolina IS ACTUALLY the postponed GC20, and therefore GC24 will likely be postponed until 2026. Maybe.

11. The timing of the launch of the Global Methodist Church allowed interested laity and clergy and congregations a full year and a half to discuss and enact the provisions of Para 2553 regarding disaffiliation from The UMC. People had a full year to prepare their proposals before their Annual Conferences in 2023.
Some congregations were quick to disaffiliate. Many did the groundwork before AnnConf23, and this summer we witnessed something of an exodus from The UMC.

12. It has been reported that over 4,200 congregations have disaffiliated in 2023 (and about 1,800 in 2022) (6K total ish)
WV: 24       EOH: 250   PenDel: 108         Susq: 148
KY: 366      Over 300: KY, IN, TX, NAL, NC. WPA 298

13. GMC reports somewhere around 3,000 congregations.
UMC in USA approx. 30,000 before GMC.

Note: disaffiliations could unite GMC or other or not.
It appears about half of UMC disaffiliations went GMC

Note: WV and para 2553 – There has always been provision in the BOD to close a church. No expiration date, no AnnConf vote. Bishop Sandra Steiner Ball has directed interested churches in that direction. 24 closures this year.  //

Note: not a SPLIT but a SPLINTER

Note: …The mission of The UMC is to make disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world.

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I am a United Methodist pastor in West Virginia.
I was ordained an elder in 2005 and am a full member of the WV Conference.

In this post I will address two “potentially contentious” (my words) resolutions which were submitted (6/1/23) to WVAC23 (June 8-11) and included in the registration packet we all received when we signed in; 2023-08 and 2023-09.

Any errors in describing the events are mine.

Three or four noteworthy things from WVAC23:
One, I like and respect our bishop, SSB, who has been our leader for eleven years, and by Discipline we cannot have her for a fourth quadrennium.

Two, Judi K has been Conference secretary for twentysomething years, and has done an excellent job. She retired from this position to take a position with the greater denomination (!) in the “Connectional Table”. We’re proud of her! Elected as new conference secretary is Sarah Estep.

Three, Brad B. received recognition from a denominational communications agency for excellence in communication. He’s a stand-up dude and I’m proud to call him a friend.

The conference had a live choir for the first time since COVID, led by the fantastic Dan whose last name I don’t recall but he was simply amazing and a joy to worship with.

Laity elected a member to Jurisdictional Conference, Kim Matthews.

Retirees were celebrated, deceased were mourned, and people were commissioned and ordained. We had addresses from Bishop Cynthia Moore Koikoi, WVWC President Moore, author Sue Kibbey, and others.

If you’ve never been to Annual Conference I highly recommend checking it out if and when you can.

Also: www.wvumc.com/news

And now the “potentially contentious” resolutions:

In my words, 23-08 called on WVUMC clergy to remember and keep the ordination vows (particularly with respect to upholding, keeping, and teaching the denomination’s positions regarding sexuality issues and the church. The United Methodist rule book forbids same-sex marriages from being celebrated in our churches and by our clergy). When this resolution was brought to the business session of the conference (on Thursday evening), somebody rose to speak about the resolution, and stated that this is a matter that the WVUMC Board of Ordained Ministry should deal with on a case-by-case basis, and the conference voted to refer 23-08 to BOM.

Sometime during the day on Friday, the Rules Committee presented a few changes to our operational rules (they had done a bunch of work going through our existing rules and were essentially tidying our rules up). One of the proposed tweaks had to do with exactly when a resolution must be proposed for inclusion in our printed materials before conference. Somebody rose to speak, seeking to tweak the proposed tweak to ensure that resolutions be published early enough that delegates could study them before conference. After 40 minutes of debate/discussion, the tweak-of-the-tweak passed, thus requiring that in order for a resolution to be considered by the conference, it must be submitted 90 days or more before conference.

Then on Saturday, during a business session, 2023-09 was brought to the floor.

In my words, 23-09 called on the WVUMC conference to petition the Jurisdictional Conference and the College of Bishops to ensure that the Jurisdictional Conference and the College of Bishops uphold church discipline and rules, and to NOT encourage / turn a blind eye to “civil disobedience” (my words) which would go against the same-sex marriage prohibition and homosexual clergy legislation on our books.

Somebody then pointed out that according to the rule change we made on Friday, we could not consider 23-09 since 23-09 had not been submitted 90 days prior to conference. In order to consider 23-09, we would have to SUSPEND the rule that we had just passed, and in order to suspend the rules to consider 23-09, we needed a 2/3 vote. We didn’t get a 2/3 vote. After some emotionally charged discussion, the Rules Committee suggested we revisit suspending the rules, since 23-09 had indeed been submitted to the AnnConf in good faith and before the preceding day’s rule change. The vote was very close to revisit suspending the rules, but ultimately it did not get enough votes, so long story short, 23-09 was never officially discussed.

It seems to me that the people who lobbied for the Friday rule change did so unaware that it would cause 23-09 to be ineligible for consideration.

That is, in a nutshell, the “potentially contentious” part of WVAC23.

In WVUMC about fifty churches closed; about half of them because they were unsustainable, and about half because they apparently no longer wished to be UMC. With the closure process WVUMC uses, that’s about all the detail I have. So out of 900 ish churches, 25ish closed in a disaffiliation way, presumably to unite with the newly-formed conservative “Global Methodist Church”.

One snafu we had concerning the sound system: the chapel has a sound system, and WVUMC hires a production company for video and sound tech. We’ve worked with the same production company (GNTV) for several years, and we supplement their employees with our own volunteers (such as me, running cameras and sound boards and such).

The tech setup has to allow for eight mics placed around the chapel so that members who want to speak (about business) can do so and be heard by the chapel as well as by the folks online. The tech setup also has to allow for a pulpit mic, two podium mics, three mics at the conference table, choir and piano mics. And the tech setup has to make sure that sound (volume) is appropriate in all areas of the chapel as well as online.

The tech setup was in place and tested before I arrived on Tuesday.

Some time on Wednesday, somebody (not with GNTV and not from our volunteers) turned a bunch of speakers off, and we didn’t know it. When we started up on Thursday, our output was about 15% of what it should’ve been, and we were scrambling to make all things appropriately audible with only one out of eight speakers functioning.

After the opening session on Thursday, GNTV and our volunteers sleuthed about and discovered the powered-off speakers, so for the rest of conference we were able to hear much better.

My job for most of conference was muting/unmuting the various mics, and tweaking volume. A lot of people who get up to speak stand like three feet away from the mic, in which case it doesn’t pic up well and I’d have to do what I could to amplify their sound. If people were too close to a mic, that was easy enough to turn down.

So. That’s some of the dramatic parts of conf. 

The information was there for people who were specifically looking for it, but I would not say the information was at all handy. Somebody from my church asked about church closings and this is what I shared with them:

in Resolution 2023-02, the Cabinet Property Report, section 10.f.4conf.

(pages 2-4 here: https://www.wvumc.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/2023-02-Cabinet-Property-Report.pdf )

twenty listed "financial" as the reason for closure.

six listed "discontinued" as the reason for closure.  

twentythree listed "separated" as the reason for closure.

Here are the official definitions from GCFA on the categories: 

• Financial - Closing based on not having finance capability to continue as a functioning entity

• Abandoned - Closing based on members and personnel having ceased to support or look after the entity

• Discontinued - Closing when the conference decides to suspend activity at church due to lack of support or resources. Operations have been or will be shut down.

• Disaffiliation - Church that are exiting/withdrawing the UMC under the new “gracious exit”.  These are churches that will be leaving the UMC under the new discipline code of ¶2553 churches leaving under certain circumstances. GCFA will list all churches living under ¶2553 with a reason of closure as of disaffiliation.

• No Longer Ecumenical Shared Ministry - Closing when church no longer wishes to be a part of Ecumenical Shared Ministry with the UMC.  These are churches that are currently part of your conferences Shared Ministry form. 

I believe "Separated" may be shorthand for churches who no longer want to be part of the ecumenical shared ministry with the UMC. 

These are the six discontinued: 

Pleasant Hill (Greenbrier Wesleyan)
Chrichton (Greenbrier Wesleyan)
Rosemar (Little Kanawha)
First (Mon Valley)
Christ (Northern)
Yawkey (Nine Rivers)

These are the twentythree "separated"

Mt Union (Greenbrier Wesleyan)
Ten Mile (Greenbrier Wesleyan)
Maude Chapel (Greenbrier Wesleyan)
Chesterville (Little Kanawha) 
Merrill Chapel (Little Kanawha) 
Slate Chapel (Little Kanawha) 
Oil Creek (Little Kanawha)
Orlando (Little Kanawha)
Israel (Mon Valley)
Central Chapel (Mon Valley)
New Hope (Mon Valley)
Bethany (Northern)
Pleasant Hill (Northern)
New Bethel (Northern)
Leon (Nine Rivers)
Sinclair (Potomac Highlands)
Valley Chapel (Potomac Highlands)
Seneca (Potomac Highlands)
Faith (Potomac Highlands) 
Baker (Potomac Highlands) 
Shays Chapel (Potomac Highlands)
Bays Chapel (Southern)
Richmond (Southern)

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