Pastor

Dan Hauge 

Senior Pastor, Elder

​Pastor Dan is a gifted teacher/preacher. He has touched many lives in his 35 years of ministry. He graduated from Grace University and went on to Dallas Theological Seminary, graduating in 1984. He has also served as a professor at Grace University for 15 years. Dan has three grown children and has been married to his best friend, Cheryl, for 41 years!

Youth Leader

James Schlesiger

Youth Group Leader

​James has been serving as the High School Youth Leader at Grace Bible Church for over 10 years. As an Omaha/Bellevue native, he has been under the teaching and mentorship of Pastor Dan Hauge since he was in middle school. James married the love of his life, Chelsea, in 2013. Since then, they have added two daughters to their family.

Elders

Dave Schlesiger

Elder

Dave has worked for Century Link (Formerly Qwest) as a computer hardware technician for 30 years. He and Chris have been married 37 years and have been a part of this church family for 31 years. They have three grown children and four grandchildren with three generations of Schlesiger's attending our church. Dave enjoys his grandkids and sports.​

Rick Vranicar

Elder

Rick is a retired Physical Education and Health teacher. He currently serves as a substitute teacher for the Westside School district. Rick and Kathy will have been married 41 years in July and have been a part of this church family for 43 years. They have three grown children and two grandchildren with one more due in August. Rick enjoys fishing and all things Huskers.

Staff and Ministry Leaders

Julie Sweet

Pastors' & Ministries Assistant

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Julie has served in a Hospitality / Customer Service capacity for over 30 years. She owned a business for 15 years and served as the Hospitality Director in a church environment before becoming involved with GBC. Julie is the GBC Pastors' Assistant as well as the Coordinator for a variety of GBC activities and volunteer groups. Look for Julie on Sunday mornings when she is always available to answer questions. She and Paul have been married for 26 years and have three children.

Allie Knouse

Worship Leader

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Allie was raised in the South (Georgia) but returned to the area in 2009 after graduating high school. Allie attended both UNL and Grace University, graduating from Grace in 2017. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and a Bachelor’s degree in Music Performance. She has been working at Rejuvenating Women since 2017 and is their Director of Development and Marketing. She has been attending GBC since 2013 She enjoys relaxing by practicing music and learning more Casting Crowns songs!!

Children’s ministry and Nursery team

Chris Schlesiger

Coleen Crow

Kathy Vranicar

Kirsten Stewart

What We Believe

At GBC, we believe:

... that all Scripture is inspired of God and that this divine inspiration extends equally and fully to all parts of the writings—historical, poetical, doctrinal, and prophetical—as appeared in the original manuscripts which are entirely without error,

... that the Godhead eternally exists in three persons—the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit (the Trinity)—and that these three are one God, having precisely the same nature, attributes, and perfections, and worthy of precisely the same homage, confidence, and obedience,

... that the Son of God was born of a virgin, receiving a human body and a sinless human nature, yet retaining absolute deity, being at the same time God and man,

... that man was originally created in the image and after the likeness of God, and that he fell through sin, and, as a consequence of his sin, all of creation has been placed into a bondage of corruption and man has lost his spiritual life, becoming dead in trespasses and sins, and subject to the power of Satan,

... that in infinite love for the lost, Christ voluntarily accepted His Father’s will and became the divinely provided sacrificial Lamb and took away the sin of the world, bearing the holy judgments against sin which the righteousness of God must impose and that, according to the Scriptures, He was crucified, buried, and arose from the dead in the same body, though glorified, in which He had lived and died, and that His resurrection body is the pattern of that body which ultimately will be given to all believers,

... that the new birth of the believer comes only through faith in Christ and that no other act, such as repentance, confession, baptism, prayer, or faithful service, should be added to believing as a condition of salvation and when an unregenerate person exercises that faith in Christ he passes immediately out of spiritual death into spiritual life, and from the old creation into the new; being justified from all things and accepted before the Father,

... that, according to the Word of God, the next great event in the fulfillment of prophecy will be the coming of the Lord in the air to receive to Himself into heaven both His own who are alive and also all who have fallen asleep in Jesus,

... that the rapture of the church will be followed by a time of judgment on the whole earth and that the latter half of this period the Lord called the great tribulation,

... that the period of great tribulation on the earth will be climaxed by the return of the Lord Jesus Christ, with power and great glory to introduce the millennial age, to bind Satan and place him in the abyss, to lift the curse which now rests upon the whole creation, to restore Israel to her own land, and to bring the whole world to the knowledge of God.

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