By Emmanuel Smart Jipoh
Monrovia, Liberia, June 13, 2025 – What seems to be one other contemporary battle is rising amongst Methodists right here as newly shaped International Methodist Church of Liberia (GMC) takes exception to what it phrases ‘false and deceptive allegations’ by the management of the Liberia Annial Convention of the United Methodist Church that has accused some members of the GMC of vandalizing the Ganta Methodist Hospital in Ganta Metropolis, Nimba County.
It might be recalled that members of the GMC allegedly attacked some members of the UMC on the services of the Ganta Mission Station. The management of the United Methodist Church raised a number of alleged verbal assaults on the International Methodist Church with out proving their claims.
In a launch issued on Thursday, June 12, in Monrovia, the GMC acknowledged that Bishop Samuel Quire of the Liberia Annual Convention dared to misinform the general public by the digital media that members of the GMC vandalized the Ganta Hospital.
It questioned why the GMC could possibly be naive to destroy property belonging to the previous Gompa District Convention of the UMC that has joined the GMC within the title of celebration.
The International United Methodist Church alleged that following Bishop Quire’s false allegation, there have been no experiences from the hospital to verify his allegations, nor has there been any police arrest.
In addition to, the GMC mentioned regardless of the UMC and members of the previous Gompa District Convention of the UMC went by authorized course of om a court docket of competent jurisdiction to find out who owns the Ganta Hospital, faculty, and the whole mission station positioned within the Metropolis of Ganta, Nimba County, the court docket made a willpower by dismissing the claims of the United Methodist Church to any property, and declaring the previous Gompa District of the UMC in Nimba, now part of the newly-established International Methodist Church, house owners of all of the property.
The International UMC mentioned the court docket choice necessitating the celebration continues even because it convenes within the metropolis of Ganta, Nimba County, from 7-13 July 2025 for the official convening convention of the International Methodist Church.
It encourages the management of the UMC to proceed the authorized redress initiated to discover a treatment to its issues, somewhat than looking for pointless sympathy from the general public on the expense of the International Methodist Church of Liberia.
The GMC additionally encourages people claiming property to take the matter to the legislation, as an alternative of participating in any disorderly actions, and calls on all members of the Mount Nimba District of the International Methodist Church of Liberia to keep away from any confrontation with members of the United Methodist Church.
The discharge acknowledged that the International Methodist Church exists to make disciples of Jesus Christ and unfold scriptural holiness throughout Liberia, Africa, and the world at giant with a imaginative and prescient of multiplying disciples of Jesus Christ all through the earth, who flourish in scriptural holiness, love extravagantly, and witness boldly.
In the meantime, the United Methodist Church and the International Methodist have been at loggerheads over the query of same-sex marriage that Bishop Quire has persistently denied. Press Launch
