SYNODALITY IN ACTION IN AUGUSTA, GEORGIA AS WELL AS ON POPE AVENUE ON HILTON HEAD: THE MOST INFLUENTIAL DISUNITED METHODIST CHURCH IN AUGUSTA, TRINITY ON THE HILL, NEXT DOOR TO SAINT MARY ON THE HILL CATHOLIC CHURCH, CHOOSES TO LEAVE THE UNITED OR DISUNITED METHODIST CHURCH!

Like St. Luke Church on Pope Avenue, next door to Holy Family Catholic Church on Pope Avenue on Hilton Head, Trinity on the Hill United Methodist Church in Augusta, Georgia, next door to St. Mary on the Hill Catholic Church, is disaffiliating with the Methodist Church.

Trinity on the Hill is perhaps the most influential Methodist Church in Augusta, home to many elected officials and politicians and just plain rich folks. So this is big news for a large southern Protestant Church!

The reason for their disaffiliating with the North Georgia United Methodist Conference, is because that Conference (think of diocese as Methodist Conferences are headed by a bishop) is joining the national United Methodist Church Conference by embracing LGBTQ+++ ideologies and thus distancing themselves from the Bible and Biblical sexual morality. The Augusta Church is concerned too about their Conference endorsing the ordination of active LGBTQ+++ (meaning sexually active, in or outside of marriage, no mater how marriage might be defined). In other words, Trinity on the Hill, through their synodal process, does’t want their bishop to assign any LGBTQ+++ ministers to their church and they don’t want the LGBTQ++++ ideologies thrust down their throats or their children throats. They want biblical morality. 

This is long, but shows you synodality in progress: