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This special called session will be held online only, on Zoom for members and live-streamed for others. The Zoom link and voting credentials will be sent to registered members during the week preceding the Special Session.

The sole purpose of this Special Session is to affirm or not affirm the church conference actions of local churches that are choosing to ask to disaffiliate from The United Methodist Church under the provisions of The Book of Discipline 2016, Paragraph 2553. The Board of Trustees will present negotiated settlements that cannot be amended. The members of Annual Conference will affirm or not affirm the agreements by a simple majority vote.

ALL VOTING MEMBERS were emailed Tuesday evening (May 2) with their VOTER IDs and LINK to the Zoom webinar (subject of the email: PNW Special Called Session Information). Please check your junk mail filters, too, searching for “TODAY: PNW Special Called Session Information” from “communications@pnwumc.org.” If you did not receive an email and are confident you register for the Special Session, please contact pscriven@pnwumc.org. 

Special Session Resources for Members

The following materials are provided to support the work of the members of the Pacific Northwest Annual Conference as they meet for a Special Session on May 7, 2023, as called by Bishop Cedrick Bridgeforth to consider disaffiliation requests. Please plan to download and print items in advance if you want to have paper copies of these resources.

Key Items

Materials specifically related to the work of the Special Session will be found below. As more items become available, we will post them here.

Disaffiliation Agreements

Other Items

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