Montgomery County Circuit Judge Brooke Reid declined to intervene in a property dispute between three Alabama churches and the Alabama-West Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church on Tuesday.
The United Methodist Church’s (UMC) court will deliberate in October on the handling of church exits in Alabama and other states in recent years.
The Alabama Supreme Court unanimously upheld a lower court’s dismissal of a lawsuit brought by 48 Methodist Churches across Alabama against the United Methodist Church on Friday.
The Alabama Supreme Court agreed last Friday to hear oral arguments in Harvest Church’s lawsuit against the United Methodist Church.
A Montgomery County Circuit Court Judge recently dismissed a lawsuit brought by 45 Alabama Methodist churches seeking a vote to disaffiliate with the United Methodist Church and retain church property amidst nationwide turmoil within the denomination.