GracePoint United Methodist Church closes its Doors
It is with sad news that we share the word that GracePoint UMC will be closing its doors. Quite a bit of energy was spent around the break up of GracePoint UMC into GracePoint Community Church in our methoblogosphere (not to mention to congregations involved). Bishop Scott Jones is quoted,
"We would have liked to continue the GracePoint United Methodist congregation. Unfortunately, there were not enough remaining members to continue the congregation," Kansas United Methodist Bishop Scott Jones said in a news release issued today. "We are disappointed that things worked out this way."
Andrew Conard shares his thoughts saying,
I believe that the new church start that was GracePoint UMC has been and will continue to bear fruit in God’s kingdom.
It is okay that the new church start that was GracePoint UMC did not work out for the Kansas West Annual Conference or the United Methodist Church. I believe that the annual conference should be about starting more new churches, not less as a result of this scenario.
I mentioned similar sentiments to Andrew upon the breakup that a scenario like this does not need linger in our minds in starting a new church (that they might eventually leave the umc) but that whatever we do, we do faithfully and it will bear fruit for the Kingdom of God.
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From what I could gather,
From what I could gather, GracePoint seemed to leave the conference for a couple reasons. 1 it is/was really difficult to launch a new church and/or multisite church in the United Methodist Conference. The counter argument I have seen to this is that C.O.R. up in the K.C. area seemed to do it and do it very well. However that is 1 success. How many failures? We don’t hear about them.
I believe that the new
I believe that the new church start that was GracePoint UMC has been and will continue to bear fruit in God’s kingdom.
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