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welcome you to the West District of the Central
Texas Conference of the United Methodist
Church. This district is one of five districts that make up the Central
Texas Conference. We are located in the central part of Texas serving
all or parts of Bosque, Brown, Callahan, Coleman, Comanche, Eastland, Erath,
Hamilton, Mills, Palo Pinto, Runnels, Stephens Counties, and Young Counties.
The District serves sixty-one congregations with over 12,000 United Methodist
members.
The
area is mostly rural with peanuts, pecans, dairy production, beef cattle,
sheep, goats, wheat, sorghum, cotton, and hay being our major agriculture
production. There are deer, dove, quail and turkey hunting. Oil, gas and
light manufacturing are the primary industries of the district.
We
serve the student needs of Tarleton
State University, Howard Payne University,
Cisco
College and Ranger College
with over nine thousand students, many of them Methodists.
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