What it is
For the first time in decades, North Georgia is being asked to vote on redrawing its own boundaries — merging with the South Georgia Conference to form a single new Georgia Conference of The United Methodist Church.
The two conferences already share an episcopal area under one bishop. After eighteen months of study by the Connectional Table and the One Georgia Task Force, the Plan of Union comes to both 2026 sessions.
What conference actually votes on
Two linked resolutions (see Up for a vote):
- The Plan of Union — adopting the plan that would govern the new conference's creation and structure, and entreating the Southeastern Jurisdiction to realign the boundaries and authorize a Unifying Conference.
- The Joint Distributing Committee — the ¶1507 committee that would equitably divide pensions, funds, property, and liabilities between the two conferences.
If it passes
The Southeastern Jurisdiction is asked to call a special session in summer 2026 to approve the realignment; a joint Unifying Conference would then organize the new conference for operation in 2027. The 2027 budget before this session is deliberately a North Georgia–only budget precisely because a unified budget would be built later by both conferences.
The full Plan of Union is published at georgiaumc.org/resolution.