July 30 reception planned
to welcome new leader

The Rev. Kim Cape, new superintendent of the Austin District, is to be welcomed at a reception July 30 from 3 to 5 p.m. at First UMC, Austin.
Cape, 54, succeeds the Rev. Robert Hall as district superintendent. Hall has been appointed to Tarrytown UMC, Austin, as senior pastor. He succeeds the Rev. Jim Mayfield, who retired.
Cape is no stranger to the Austin District. She served Buda UMC as pastor from 1979 to 1982; Berkeley UMC, Austin, from 1982 to 1986; and Manchaca UMC from 1993 to 1995.
She was development program director for the Austin-based Texas Methodist Foundation from 1995 to 2001.
Cape has also been pastor of Grace UMC, Corpus Christi, and a regional representative for the General Board of Discipleship.
As a superintendent, Cape is an extension of the bishop’s office and advises Bishop Joel N. Martinez on pastoral appointments. She provides spiritual and administrative leadership to pastors and members of congregations under her supervision and represents The United Methodist Church hierarchy to the 28,618 United Methodists in the Austin District.
Cape began her ministry in 1976. She earned a bachelor’s degree in 1974 from Pan American University, Edinburg, a master of theology degree in 1979 and a doctor of ministry degree in 2004 from Southern Methodist University. Cape was ordained a deacon in 1976 and an elder in 1980.