A deacon who helped prevent what authorities say could have been a mass shooting by using his pickup truck to strike a gunman outside a Michigan church has received a new Ford F-150.

The Alabama-West Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church has voted to immediately close 26 churches in south Alabama and one in the Florida Panhandle.

“This is a solemn moment,” said Bishop Jonathan Holston, who oversees all United Methodist churches in Alabama and the Florida Panhandle.

A 100-year-old building that houses First United Methodist Church in Mayfield, Kentucky, was destroyed in the tornadoes that ripped through the state.

The story of the United Methodist Church in Superior began in the fall of 1913. During a train layover, Methodist Deaconess Isabelle Reeves discovered that there was no Protestant church in the area.

Lake Jackson United Methodist Church yard sale will help cover expenses of mission and programs, such as an expanding food pantry.

The Rev. Kevin Thomas, pastor of Forest Lake United Methodist Church in Tuscaloosa, will become the new senior pastor of First United Methodist of Birmingham, effective July 1.

This morning, members of the united methodist church met with state legislators to express the need for change, and this movement has seen bipartisan support.

A Waurika congregation's planned exit from the United Methodist Church hit a snag, but church members are seeing good things come from it.