News

9/25/2023

Bishop Minerva G. Carcaño has returned home to the California-Nevada Conference, and we invite you to celebrate with us on World Communion Day with a special service of welcome and Holy Communion. The service will be held at 5 p.m. at First United Methodist Church in Sacramento, which is located at 2100 J Street, Sacramento, CA 95816. ​The service will be recorded and the video will be available on the conference website early the week of October 2. All are welcome and encouraged to attend. ...

9/24/2023

United Methodist Bishop Minerva Carcaño was exonerated of all charges by a jury of 13 North Central Jurisdiction United Methodist clergy on Sept. 22 in Chicago. The denomination’s first Latina bishop has been on leave since March 9, 2022 while complaints against her were under review. All four charges, which included 26 specifications, received votes of 13-0. The trial began at 8 a.m. on Sept. 18. The jury started deliberations at 4 p.m Sept. 21. They made their unanimous verdict at 8:32 p.m. ...

9/22/2023

Dear Beloved Members of The United Methodist Church in the West, Grace and peace to you in the name of Jesus Christ. Today, a jurisdictional trial concluded that involved our colleague, Bishop Minerva Carcaño, as respondent. Under the oversight of presiding officer Bishop Alfred Gwinn, the trial resulted in a dismissal of all four charges against Bishop Carcaño as the jury found her actions to be within the bounds of her episcopal authority. Although the judicial process is complete, we ...

9/22/2023

For Immediate Release September 22, 2023 GLENVIEW, ILLINOIS – After three days of testimony and an evening spent in prayerful deliberation, a jury of Bishop Minerva G. Carcaño’s clergy peers found her not guilty of violating The United Methodist Book of Discipline on the four charges she faced. Rev. Dan Hurlbert, chair of the Western Jurisdiction Committee on Episcopacy, responded shortly after the trial, writing, “In accordance with ¶ 2704.1.c of The 2016 Book of Discipline which states, “the ...

9/14/2023

The United Methodist Church faces something unprecedented in its and its Methodist predecessors’ history: the church trial of one of its bishops. The trial of Bishop Minerva G. Carcaño — who has been under suspension for 18 months — is scheduled to begin Sept. 19 at the offices of Wespath Benefits and Investments in Glenview, Illinois, a Chicago suburb. United Methodist News plans to cover the trial and post updates at www.umnews.org. In another first in the denomination’s history, the trial ...

9/14/2023

United Methodist Ecumenical Officer, Bishop Sally Dyck and Rev. Ann Jacob participated in last week's World Council of Churches Central Committee meeting in Geneva. In this photo they are joined by new WCC General Secretary Rev. Dr. Jerry Pillay.   At the Assembly in 2022 Bishop Dyck was named to the Executive Committee, and at this meeting she was also elected as Co-Moderator of the Permanent Committee on consensus and Collaboration (with H.E. Elder Metropolitan Emmanuel of Chalcedon, ...

9/14/2023

During the month of October, people across The United Methodist Church connection will be celebrating our leaders. The Endowment Board and the Conference are collaborating to recognize and celebrate clergy and lay ministers that serve in local churches and special appointments across California-Nevada.  Enjoy this message from Interim Bishop Sally Dyck in appreciation of our leaders and visit our  MAM webpage and fill out a short appreciation form to let everyone know what you most value about ...

8/10/2023

Editor's note: To donate funds to UMCOR Disaster Response and Recovery, Adavance project number #901670, to help rebuild after the wildfires in Hawaii, click here.  Yesterday the wind was high as I took off from Honolulu to West Coast. We were aware of the presence of Hurricane Dora, as the wind had been high for the last part of our trip. This morning I woke up to hear about the fires on Maui and Hawaiʻi island moving quickly because of the winds, and then the evacuation of the areas around ...

8/10/2023

Editor's note: Click here to view the article on the Western Jurisdiction website. Jurisdiction are mourning the death last week of their colleague, mentor, and friend: Bishop Melvin G. Talbert. “Mel was an amazingly gracious, approachable, powerful church leader and mentor of emerging leaders in the church.” Retired Bishop Elaine JW Stanovsky Talbert served as bishop of the Pacific Northwest Conference and The California-Nevada Conference before retiring in 2000. Stanovsky was ordained as an...

8/7/2023

 Bishop Melvin George Talbert, a retired bishop of The United Methodist Church, died  August 3, 2023.   Bishop Talbert was elected to the episcopacy by the Western Jurisdictional Conference of The United Methodist Church in 1980 and assigned to the Seattle Area. He was assigned to the San Francisco Area in 1988, where he retired August 31, 2000. Bishop Talbert was born on June 14, 1934, in Clinton, Louisiana, United States. He was one of seven children of sharecropper parents, Nettles and ...