“I now look at life in a little different way,” Bishop Debra Wallace-Padgett said, thinking “how precious it is and how quickly it can change.” She said the same has happened as she dealt with the disaffiliation of churches.
Bishop Debra Wallace-Padgett, head of the North Alabama Conference of the United Methodist Church, offers a blessing during the annual meeting, June 21-24, 2023, at the Von Braun Center in Huntsville.Bishop Debra Wallace-Padgett said Friday she was involved in a serious car crash recently, and it gave her a better perspective on surviving the split in the United Methodist denomination.
The woman was a pastor in the Holston Conference in Tennessee, which Wallace-Padget also supervises. The bishop joked that she has now assigned the woman as pastor of the largest church in the conference. “Not really,” she said.“I now look at life in a little different way,” she said, thinking “how precious it is and how quickly it can change.”
More than a quarter of all clergy in the conference, active and retired, have left over the past year as part of the disaffiliations, she said. The 2024 budget will be $5,867,368, to account for an additional projected loss of $755,000 due to continued disaffiliations.
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