You can do is to end your membership in The UMC. The ONLY way to be ENTIRELY removed from The UMC is transfer.This is grounded in our theology of baptism and membership. The Book of Discipline provides that members can be removed from the membership role if they "transfer, die or have withdrawn from membership." If the member does not comply with any of the available alternatives over a period of two years, the member's name may be removed. The GM Church now has 12 operating provisional annual conferences and one provisional district. If a pastor is informed that a member has without notice united with a church of another denomination, the pastor shall make diligent inquiry. The article, "The Wicked Problem of the United Methodist Church," originally published in Quarterly Review, Vol. 22, Number 1, Spring 2002, pp43-57.