Bishop Minerva Carcano of the Cali­for­nia-Pacific Conference of the United Methodist Church, a national spokes­woman for immigration reform, will be preaching at 10:30 a.m. Sunday at Trinity United Methodist Church in Pearl City.

Her sermon, "Grace at the Margins," is based on John 4:5-15, according to the Rev. Bob Miyake-Stoner, Trinity’s pastor. The church is at 1716 Komo Mai Drive. Call 389-7759 for more information.

Carcano is in Hono­lulu attending the church’s annual area conference.

She was arrested during a Feb. 17 demonstration in front of the White House to protest the deportation of 2 million immigrants.

With Bishop Julius Trimble, who was also arrested in the protest, she co-leads the church’s Interagency Task Force on Immigration. In 2013 she was among 14 religious leaders invited to the White House by President Barack Obama to talk about immigration reform.

In a Feb. 18 article in the United Methodist Reporter, Carcano was quoted as saying, "None of those poor, hardworking immigrants should have been deported. But they’re being deported as a scapegoat to a broken immigration system, as a scapegoat to a nonfunctioning Congress … a president who can’t seem to lead us on comprehensive immigration reform need; and so we’re here to say enough is enough."

A native of Edinburg, Texas, Carcano was elected as a United Methodist bishop in 2004, serving the Phoenix area of the Desert Southwest Conference from 2004 to 2012. She has been assigned the Cali­for­nia-Pacific Conference since 2012.