This Sunday, Bardsdale United Methodist Church is pleased to welcome to the pulpit Bishop Minerva Carcano of the California-Pacific Annual Conference.

The first Hispanic woman to be elected to the episcopacy of the United Methodist Church, Bishop Carcano oversees more than three hundred churches in Southern and Central California, Hawaii, the Pacific Islands, Guam and Saipan. She was appointed to this area in 2012 after serving in the same capacity for the Desert-Southwest Conference from 2004-2012.

Bishop Carcano is a third-generation Methodist and felt the call to ordained ministry as a child and was active in youth ministry. She was ordained an elder in 1979 and served as pastor of churches in Texas, California and New Mexico. Being also the first Hispanic woman to be appointed as a District Superintendent, she led districts in Texas, Oregon and New Mexico.

In 2013, she was one of fourteen religious leaders invited to meet with President Obama to discuss immigration reform and is the lead spokesperson for the UMC Council of Bishops on the the subject of immigration. She is married and has a daughter attending college.

Please come and hear her inspiring message beginning at 10 AM at the historic Bardsdale Church. It is located at 1498 Bardsdale Avenue. There is plenty of off-street parking behind the church.