COBB COUNTY, Ga. — Leaders of one of the largest churches in Cobb County now say they will seek to break away from the United Methodist Church over the way they say the church tried to reassign their ...

Oct. 9—East Cobb's 9,000-member Mt. Bethel United Methodist Church filed responses to, and countersued, administrators of the Methodist church's regional governing body on Friday. In Cobb County ...

East Cobb’s Mt. Bethel United Methodist Church must pay $13.1 million to the Methodist denomination in order to leave and become an independent church, lawyers involved in the case confirmed. The ...

Dec. 22—Editor's note: The MDJ counts down the Top 10 local stories of 2021 as determined by newsroom staff. Today's installment is No. 8. The future of one of Cobb's most prominent churches is ...

East Cobb’s Mt. Bethel United Methodist Church has raised more than half of the $13.1 million needed as part of a mediated settlement that will allow it to become independent of the denomination, ...