Meet Bishop Oliveto video

Bishop Karen Oliveto loves and lives Jesus all the time, no matter where she is.

Please take a few minutes – less than eight, really – to look at this new video: Meet Bishop Karen Oliveto – Good Friday in Babylon. It gives us a glimpse into our new bishop, her life, her dreams, and the foundation of her ministry.

It’s no joke, she was actually born on Good Friday, and grew up in Babylon, N.Y., just a short way from New York City. She has felt God guiding her into ministry since her childhood, and now, she’s our bishop.

From her first sermon at age 16 to directing campus ministries in rural New York State and in San Francisco, to becoming the first woman pastor at one of The United Methodist Church’s 100 largest churches, she has lived Jesus’s call to love unconditionally, and to reach into the margins to introduce people to God’s saving and healing grace.

"My goal is that we live into beloved community, that this world which is so fractured by hate, so fractured by poverty, so fractured by intolerance, that we live boldly as the body of Christ that we love so fully, so completely, that the neighborhoods in which United Methodist churches stand in are utterly transformed by the love that spills out of these communities,” Bishop Oliveto says in the video.

Watch it. Share it. Use it to introduce folks to our new bishop. Wonderful things are ahead for the Mountain Sky Area – The Rocky Mountain and Yellowstone Annual Conferences – as we work to create beloved communities throughout the region.

If you have questions about how you can use the video, don’t hesitate to contact Charmaine Robledo, the Mountain Sky Area’s director of communications, at charmaine@rmcumc.com or 303-325-7054.