TESTIMONIALS
North Carolina CONFERENCE
I offer my highest endorsement on behalf of the Rev. Dr. Grace Pak. I have experienced and benefited from her work in multiple venues: As facilitator/trainer, coach/strategy consultant, and presenter. As facilitator/trainer, Dr. Pak brings creativity, joy, and a deep reservoir of theological insight and well-honed skill to each engagement. She ensures that voices from all participants are heard, and guides facilitations with a keen sense of justice and equity. With ingenuity and originality, she ensures training exercises are relevant, engaging, and movement based. She facilitates with a gentle spirit and is courageous, always willing to encourage participants to wrestle with the hard and significant questions.
As a strategy consultant, Dr. Pak uses an appreciative and dialogical process assisting the group to discover its core aspiration. She encourages the group to access a broad constituency, hear from multiple perspectives, and enter truly collaborative work. Through skillful coaching, she helps the group move toward meaningful outcomes that are realistic, relevant, and measurable. As presenter, Dr. Pak is an excellent communicator. Presentations are interesting, pertinent, and well delivered. She is always prepared and knowledgeable. With generosity, respect, and grace, she invites the audience into the dialog and connects with them deeply. Her love of God and love for people unites the listening community in a mutual sense of belovedness. In short, Dr. Grace Pak is amazing. She is a blessing and a gift. I can give her no higher endorsement.
-Mr. Steve Taylor, HomeMissioner
Executive Director / Church Revitalization
North Carolina Conference of The United Methodist Church
MOUNTAIN SKY CONFERENCE
“Rev. Dr. Grace Pak has blessed the Mountain Sky Conference with two recent training sessions. One for our Board of Ordained Ministry and Cabinet and the other one for Residency in Ministry. Both trainings were focused on Implicit Bias and Cultural Competency, helping us be more equipped to lead and serve within the local church, Conference level, and community.
Rev. Dr. Pak engaged us in this work with a strong theological foundation. The trainings were informative, providing us with tools, practices, and resources that we continue to reference in our daily work and ministry. We have had an in-person training and a virtual training, both effective and engaging with time for learning, small group work and interactive activities.”
-Rev. Betty Nguyen
Multicultural and Advocacy Ministries Developer
Mountain Sky Conference of The United Methodist Church
EASTERN PA CONFERENCE
“Rev Dr. Grace Pak’s work with Eastern PA Conference involved her leadership as workshop facilitator on intercultural competency, consultant in the development of a Conference-wide process and manual on cross-racial and cross-cultural ministry and appointment-making, and trainer of teams who support and resource congregations engaged in CRCC ministry. Grounded in her love for God and her commitment to the Church, she is an effective and passionate advocate for inclusion, equity and justice for all people. Dr. Pak’s extensive knowledge base and deep understanding of relationship dynamics is the foundation of her competency to serve as an effective pastor, teacher, workshop facilitator, coach, and consultant.”
-Rev. Dr. Anita Adams Powell
Dr. Anita Adams Powell, an Elder in The United Methodist Church, served Eastern PA Conference for twenty years as Associate Pastor, Church Planter, Lead Pastor, District Superintendent and Director of Connectional Ministries. She is currently a coach and workshop facilitator.
WEST OHIO CONFERENCE
“Rev. Grace Pak systematically listens to her client’s needs and meticulously studies their context … she designs an appropriate strategic path and implementation plan that leverages her client’s strengths and resources.”
-Mr. Sam Rodriguez
Director of Faith Formation & Community Engagement
West Ohio Conference of The United Methodist Church