==stacey lundy=================
Rev. Stacey Lundy is Senior Pastor at First UMC- Anson Circuit charge in 2021, newly ordained and beginning her 8th year of ministry. Stacey attended UNCG for college and taught high school biology for two years. She continued on to Wake Forest University in Biology graduate studies, where she received a Masters Degree when God’s call to ministry shifted her quickly to head to Duke University for seminary. Serving as a pastor continues her love for the study of life and health as well as her love of teaching.
“Once [that] statement got put into our Book of Discipline, we’ve been fighting over it since 1972..At times that’s been a little cooler, and times that’s been a little hotter. It really kind of flamed up in 2016...In fact, First has become what we call a lighthouse congregation. ...That’s a new initiative in the conference and several other ones just trying to signal to the community that we’re not considering leaving the denomination and we want to deliberately provide as safe and welcoming space, especially for folks whose churches are closing, or if you were disaffiliated that wanted to remain United Methodist.” --Reverend Stacey Lundy on the UMC General Conference decision that all individuals, including homosexuals, are of sacred worth to God and should have protected rights
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In 1972, the UMC’s General Conference decided that all individuals, including homosexuals, are of sacred worth to God and should have protected rights, but it did not offer any guidance on sexual activity.
“Once [that] statement got put into our Book of Discipline, we’ve been fighting over it since 1972,” Reverend Stacey Lundy of FUMC in Wadesboro explained. “At times that’s been a little cooler, and times that’s been a little hotter. It really kind of flamed up in 2016.”
In 1972, the UMC’s General Conference decided that all individuals, including homosexuals, are of sacred worth to God and should have protected rights, but it did not offer any guidance on sexual activity.
“Once [that] statement got put into our Book of Discipline, we’ve been fighting over it since 1972,” Reverend Stacey Lundy of FUMC in Wadesboro explained. “At times that’s been a little cooler, and times that’s been a little hotter. It really kind of flamed up in 2016.”