Dr. Vic Casad

Senior Pastor of Christ United Methodist Church

Dr. Victor (Vic) Earl Casad joined a list of distinguished pastors when he was appointed to serve the congregation of Christ United Methodist Church in June 2002.

A graduate of Sunset High School and Southern Methodist University (SMU) in 1972, Vic worked in the cable television and radio business for five years before joining the Circle Ten Council of the Boy Scouts of America as a District Executive in 1976. He was assigned to Grand Prairie, Texas, then Arlington, Texas, from 1976-1983. At that point, he resigned to heed a call to the ministry and work for his theological degree at Emory.

While serving his churches in the North Texas Conference of the United Methodist Church, Vic also returned to SMU’s Perkins School of Theology to obtain a Doctor of Ministry degree with honors, in 1994.

Before becoming Christ Church’s senior pastor, he served the congregation at Aldersgate United Methodist Church in North Carrollton for eight years. Prior to that appointment, he was pastor of First United Methodist Church in Farmersville (1989-1994); Valley View United Methodist Church, Valley View (1986-1989); and South Bend United Methodist Church in Gainesville, GA (1983-1986), a church he served while earning his Master of Divinity degree with honors from Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta.

Vic was a delegate to the World Methodist Conference in Brighton, England, in 2001 and visited Israel in 2000. His missions résumé includes two trips to Malleco Rancho in Bolivia (1987 and 1989). He also participated in USO tours to Vietnam and military bases throughout the Caribbean during 1972 and 1973.

He is the son of the late Gordon Casad, a long-time minister and district superintendent in the North Texas Conference. His wife, Mary Brooke Casad is also a veteran of life in a Methodist parsonage. She is the daughter of Ben Oliphint, who was serving as senior pastor of First United Methodist Church in Dallas when he was elected a Methodist bishop. An accomplished author of children’s books in her own right, her "day job" involves heading up the Missions area for the NTC. And, to close the circle, there she will be working closely with former CUMC senior pastor Dr. Joan LaBarr in her new position.

Vic and Mary Brooke have two adult sons. McCrae and wife Melissa live in Trinidad Colorado. Carter is a college student attending the University of Colorado at Boulder.