Save UMC in Louisiana

A group of retired United Methodist Church ministers — Patricia “Pat” Bates, Willis Dear, Elizabeth “Betsy” Eaves, Gene Finnell, David Melville, William Peeples, Carl Rhoads, Fred Wideman and John Winn — have filed a lawsuit, as members of the Louisiana Annual Conference, asking a judge to stop the disaffiliation of United Methodist Churches who are taking their property with them even though they do not meet the narrow, restrictive exception to the Trust Clause added by the General Conference in 2019. It is the Louisiana Conference’s allowing this to happen that the plaintiffs oppose.

Carl Rhoads, who also is a former Treasurer of the Louisiana Annual Conference, will distribute the donated funds to cover legal expenses.

If you would like to support this effort, please contribute now. Any unused funds will be donated to the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR).