About Us

The West District of the Texas Conference of the United Methodist church is located in the heart of Texas.  Our district lines border on the
north at Marlin, Texas; on the south at Belleville, Texas; on the west at Giddings, Texas and east at I-45 including the towns of
Centerfield, Madisonville, and Huntsville, Texas.

We have a total of 86 churches in the District.  The combined membership of the district stands at 16,886 full members and an average
worship attendance of 7672. The West district churches  pay 100% of their conference and district apportioned benevolences.

    


  

District Superintendent

Rev. Joe Fort, Jr. is a fourth generation United Methodist pastor, whose family has served more than 100 years
in the ministry continuously.  He graduated from Beaumont High School in 1973.  Graduated from Lamar University (with honors)
with a B.A. degree in 1977.  Graduated with a MTh Degree from Perkins School of Theology in 1981.  He has served as associate
pastor to Fair Haven UMC  (1981 - 1983); Founding Pastor of Mauriceville First UMC ( 1983 - 1987);  Crockett First UMC (1987 - 1991);
Senior Pastor of  League City UMC (1991 - 1996) & Senior Pastor of  Kingwood UMC (1996 - 2008).   He is married to Margaret
and they have four children, Joseph III, Benjamin, David & Leslie.

 


Administrative Assistant

Hi, my name is Debbie Keim and I am the Administrative Assistant for the West District Office.  I joined the staff after having worked at A&M United Methodist Church as the Office Manager for just over four years.  I am married to Steve Keim and have three grown children, Michelle, Mark & David.  We live in College Station where our  youngest son, David, is a senior in the Corps of Cadets at Texas A&M University.  We attend Christ United Methodist Church and enjoy the various athletic events at Texas A&M. 

I am enjoying working with everyone here in the West District.   Debbie
 

 
 
Office Assistant

Hello! I am happy to be your new part-time office assistant. To tell you a little bit about myself—I’ve been married to Kip for 31 years and have helped him serve at FUMC Sugar Land, Pattison UMC, St. John’s Richmond, FUMC Pasadena and now A&M UMC. We have two children—Chelsea is 23 and applying to graduate schools from her home in Manhattan, and Zachary is 18 and will graduate from A&M Consolidate High in May. To combat the empty nest (and college expenses!) I am thankful for this job. I am also a licensed massage therapist most evenings and weekends (massageandaprayer.com) and I feel this is also truly a ministry.

God bless to all of you, Tammy