North Alabama Conference

North Alabama Conference was founded

The Vision of the North Alabama Conference of the United Methodist Church is


 * Every church challeneged and equipped to grow more disciples of Jesus Christ by taking risks and changing lives

Currently composed of such and such districts

The current bishop of the conference is Debbie Wallace-Paget



Administrative Districts:
Northeast

Mountain Lakes

Cheaha

Southeast

Southwest

Northwest

Central

Chronology of Alabama Methodism
1808 Methodism first enters Alabama through circuit riders Matthew P.

Sturdivant and James Gwinn of the Methodist Episcopal Church (MEC)

1829/1830 Alabama Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church (MPC) organized 1832 Alabama Conference of the MEC organized to include all of Alabama (not

included in the Tennessee River District of the Tennessee Conference),

West Florida, and 8 ½ counties in east Mississippi

In 1832 the part of north Alabama in the Tennessee Conference included

that north of the Tennessee River plus Franklin, Colbert, Lawrence,

Morgan and Marshall Counties. East Alabama opened up with Creek

Indian cession. 1846 Southerners secede from the MEC over issue of slavery and establish the

Methodist Episcopal Church, South (MEC, South). Alabamians organize the Alabama Conference of the MEC, South.

1867 Alabama Conference of the MEC organized by missionaries sent south

after the Civil War, primarily in northern Alabama among those least

attached to secession

1870  North Alabama Conference of the MEC, South, organized

1870 Black members of MEC, South, receive permission to form their own

denomination, the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church (CME). In 1954

name changed to Christian Methodist Episcopal Church

1876 Central Alabama Conference of the MEC organized exclusively for

blacks, splitting the MEC along racial lines—this in response to black desires

for greater self-direction and white desires for racial separation

1939  MEC; MEC, South; and MPC unite to form the Methodist Church

1968 Evangelical United Brethren join the Methodist Church to form the United

Methodist Church