Comparing United Methodist conferences

The same questions, answered differently.

Every annual conference faces the same questions about money and power — what to do with a dead church's property, how to set what each church owes, how big a cushion to keep, how much to simplify. The Discipline lets them answer in very different ways. Plumbline lays them side by side, so a church can see that its conference's choices are choices — and what else is possible.

Issue ↓ / Conference →	Río Texashome	N. Georgia	Texas	Indiana	Missouri	Gt. Plains	Florida
Apportionment collectionSee the range →	69.4%	92.7%	72.2%	~85%	Expenditure-based, growth-capped	87%	89.1%
Closed-church propertySee the range →	$13.2M held → districts	Barnes Fund	294 of 598 left → New Faith funds	$1.56M reinvested	75 left	→ operating budget	~175 left → New Church Fund
Governance & structureSee the range →	Uniting Table + 4 Vision Teams	Major SAS promoter	Mission 'Centers'	SAS + grace exit	HCI birthplace	Connecting Council	Aligned Task Teams
Reserves & net assetsSee the range →	$29.5M	$95.5M	$35.2M + $20.7M	$65.8M	$1.54M reserve (15%)	~$3M/yr drawn	$235.0M

Confirmed (audited / official)Reported (press / summary)PartialNot public — locked in a scanned journal● a notable answer

Also: the legislative half

Resolutions library

The grid compares numbers and structures. The library compares what conferences choose to say and do — real resolutions on inclusion, disaffiliation, justice, and finance reform, with the actual language, so a delegate can bring precedent to their own floor.

Browse adopted & proposed resolutions

Why the gaps are honest

The best numbers live in audited statements that conferences publish as scanned, un-searchable PDFs — public in name, hard to collect in practice. Where a cell is grey, the figure exists but is locked in a photocopied journal. We show what we can verify, name the source and year on every number, and never compare two figures that measure different things. Start with Río Texas →