“As I prepared to travel home to you, I kept asking myself: How would I return to you? How do you do that?” she told more than 300 people gathered Oct. 1 at First United Methodist Church in Sacramento, California. “I’ve never been through this before.”
No other United Methodist bishop or conference has been through this situation before.
Carcaño was delivering the sermon at a “Welcome Home” communion service — the first time she had preached in 18 months and a little over a week since a jury of 13 United Methodist clergy unanimously found her not guilty of violating church law.
She is the first bishop in The United Methodist Church and its predecessors to undergo a church trial in nearly 100 years. She also is the only bishop to be found not guilty and reinstated.
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