    Sentence 1:°By the opening of the  2008 Géneral Conference, what was the  total UMC membership’ in the U.S.?    Sentence 2: Given.current trends in  the ©. UMC-with overseas churches  growing, especially’ in -Africa, ‘and  U.S. churches collectively losing  about’ 1,000..members .a -week~it. has  been estimated that Africans. ~ will  make up.at least 30% of -the delegates  at the 2012 General Conference, and  it is ‘also possible that 40% of the  delegates’.will be’ from outside the  U.S. One... Congolese “ bishop - has  estimated that typical Sunday  attendance of the UMC: is higher. in