Our Staff

Rev. Valarie Englert
Senior Pastor

Valarie Englert is lead pastor of Grace United Methodist Church in Dallas, TX.  She has served churches in the North Texas Conference since early 2000, both as an associate pastor and lead pastor.  Her ministry is characterized by meeting challenges when and where they present themselves, whether those challenges originate in the current climate of “being church,” or in the week-in-week-out activities of life in community.

Valarie has been married to Rick for 35 years and they have one daughter, Eva, who is an ordained deacon serving in the Little Rock, AR area.  Eva’s spouse, Chris, is a pediatric nurse in Little Rock.  Valarie is an animal lover, garden and nature lover, foodie-cook and avid reader.  Music is one of her greatest joys, whether it is singing hymns in the congregation on a Sunday morning or jammin’ to rock-n-roll (maybe just a little too loudly).

Hyung-Seop Kim
Associate Pastor

Hyung-Seop Kim joined Grace Church as associate pastor in 2023 after serving at Grace as a Perkins intern this academic year. He is a graduate of Methodist Theological University in Korea and is ordained in the Korean Methodist Church. He served in Karachi, Pakistan as a missionary for six and a half years. He was a school director trying to build a peaceful and respectful community regardless of their religion and gender.

Hyung-Seop has an experience of living in diverse cultures such as South Africa, Pakistan, Malaysia, Korea and now in the U.S. This has led him to seek the opportunity to serve a multi-cultural church, and is interested in building relationships across cultures. He is married to JAE Eun and has three beautiful daughters at the ages of 3, 9 and 11.

Paul Ott
Administrative Assistant