The thing about United Methodist Churches, they are anything but UnitedTDDude wrote:Is it a Methodist church? I worked at one for several years and although none of the buildings were posted, the bylaws (if that's what they are called) from "upper management" require that no weapons be allowed in the buildings. After Virginia Tech, the social action agency of The United Methodist Church "renewed the church's call for governments around the world to ban ownership by the general public of handguns....."
. I have been a lifelong member of a Methodist Church and I carry there every day. And by that I mean, every day. Rarely does a day go by that I'm not up there. And I am usually there till 10pm and tend to often be locking up the place. So I carry. And I am one of 12 that I know of personally that carry there. There are 4 of us in the Worship Team that are carrying every sunday while we play! And then there are several staff members who carry as well as others. We hold events where we do auctions to raise money for things and the CHL classes are one of the items that are bid up high and often. I'm in the instructors class at the end of June. I plan to actually do my classes at the church.
The senior pastor knows I carry though he has determined himself that he won't.
2 of the staff members have their range silhouette's from their CHL hanging on their walls in the office!
So though the overall organization may have a certain stance...that doesn't mean that an individual church won't have a different opinion or do things a little differently.
