The trustees of the North Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church and Mt. Bethel UMC have reached a settlement to end a dispute that has divided the Marietta megachurch’s congregation. It ...

Oct. 9—East Cobb's 9,000-member Mt. Bethel United Methodist Church filed responses to, and countersued, administrators of the Methodist church's regional governing body on Friday. In Cobb County ...

In an extremely rare move, the North Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church has seized the assets of Mt. Bethel United Methodist Church in Marietta amid a fight over who should be its ...

Jul. 3—Steven Usry, selected this spring to take the reins at Mt. Bethel United Methodist Church in east Cobb, has penned a letter criticizing its leaders and vowing that he will "not be deterred" by ...

Jul. 14—The leadership of the United Methodist Church's North Georgia Conference said this week it would be moving to seize the assets of Mt. Bethel UMC in east Cobb. Bishop Sue Haupert-Johnson, and ...

East Cobb’s Mt. Bethel United Methodist Church has entered a mediation process with the North Georgia Conference of the UMC, Mt. Bethel and the conference announced in a joint statement Wednesday.

COBB COUNTY, Ga. — A metro Atlanta church will pay more than $13.1 million to leave its denomination after a year-long battle with conference leaders. Lawyers confirmed to Channel 2 Action News that ...

MARIETTA — A Cobb County Superior Court judge ruled Friday that Mt. Bethel United Methodist Church can employ Keith Boyette, who leads a conservative faction of Methodists, as co-counsel in their ...