San Antonio pastor picked
to lead Kerrville District




Kerrville District United Methodists are to welcome a San Antonio pastor as their new superintendent in June.
The Rev. Robert M. Allen, 56, senior pastor of Coker UMC, San Antonio, is to succeed the Rev. Fred E. Martin as superintendent of the 16,616-member Kerrville District.
Martin, 62, who has led the Kerrville District since 2000, is awaiting another appointment.
Bishop Joel N. Martinez announced his intention Feb. 23 to make these pastoral appointments. They are to become effective after the June 6-9 Southwest Texas Annual Conference session in Corpus Christi.
As a superintendent, Allen is to be an extension of the bishop’s office and advise Martinez on pastoral appointments. Allen is to provide spiritual and administrative leadership to the pastors and members of the 51 congregations in the Kerrville District and represent The United Methodist Church hierarchy to them.
Allen, a San Antonio native, has been senior pastor of the 2,862-member Coker congregation since 1998. Before that he served congregations in Brady, Corpus Christi, Cuero, Gonzales, Rabke, Seguin, Westhoff and Windcrest.
Allen began his ministry in Louisiana in 1975. He came to the Southwest Texas Conference in 1979.
Allen earned a bachelor of arts degree from United Methodist-related Southwestern University in Georgetown in 1973 and a master of theology degree from Southern Methodist University in Dallas in 1977. He was ordained a deacon in 1975 and an elder in 1978.