Staff
Kyle Sulwer
Kyle is the jack of many trades (not all) Facilities Coordinator at Grace since 2024. He loves to serve the Lord and work with his hands. Kyle has been attending Grace since he was five years old and loves the staff and the Biblical teaching and discipleship that the church offers. He has been married…
Jim Sabin
Jim and his wife, Peggy, came to Grace in 2015 and became members shortly after. Jim recently retired from being an engineer at Rockwell Collins, but his story about becoming a counselor, now that’s one worth telling. Several years ago, Rockwell Collins sent Jim to sea on a three-month deployment aboard a Navy vessel. When…
Robert Knaack
Robert joined the staff in 2023 as our part time custodian. Robert has been a member of Grace since 2013, and his wife Tammy joined around the time they were married in April of 2017. Robert’s first job after moving here from western Iowa way back in 1984 was as janitor for the Coralville HyVee,…
Molly Stanton
Molly works with infants and toddlers at Grace, which is truly the best job!! Molly and her husband Zack (also on staff) both hale from the south, but have called Iowa and Grace their home since 2013. Molly is also a piano teacher, with a large private studio. She and Zack have five kids –…
Lynette Morton
Lynette works in our church office and is one of the first points of contact for folks who call, email, or walk through the door. She also assists the church staff, helping them to be successful in their roles. Lynette and her husband Chris have attended Grace since Fall 2006, and have been married since…
Jacob Varvel
Jacob leads communication and connections efforts at Grace, joining the staff team in Fall 2019. He grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska (Go Huskers!) where he met his wife Linda while in school. They spent two years in Omaha before moving to Iowa City and starting to attend Grace in 2011. They have two children –…
Josh Haveman
Josh grew up in and around Grand Rapids, Michigan. He met his wife, Michelle, in college at Cornerstone University. After attending graduate school in Ohio, they moved to Walker, Iowa. While there they lived and worked at Cono Christian School for five years. After that they moved to Union, Missouri where Josh worked as a…
Amanda Chidister
Amanda works with preschool-aged children at Grace, joining the staff team in 2019. Amanda and her husband, Peter, joined Grace in the summer of 2005 and re-joined again in 2018 after a five-year stint in Memphis, TN. Amanda loves working in a job with kingdom purpose, pointing little ones to Christ and coming alongside Grace…
Steve Oliver
Steve started playing piano at age 12, drums at 14, guitar at 18, joined a band at 24 and was on the road for five years. He moved to Iowa in 2009 and married Pamela in 2011. He also started attending Grace and shooting video for us in 2011. The preaching is what first attracted…
Zack Stanton
Zack started loving music at the age of 11. He and his wife, Molly (also on staff), are originally from Arkansas, got married after graduating college, and moved to Austin, Texas for Zack’s grad school where he studied Music Composition. Then they moved to Nashville for a year, where Zack was an adjunct professor at…
Kat George
Kat (short for Kathryn) is an Iowa transplant as of 2015 from the sunny streets of Los Angeles, CA. She serves as our Women’s Ministry Coordinator. Kat and her husband, Chad, spend most of their days doing life alongside their quickly-becoming-adult children – Ben, Jackson, Austen and Jane. Chad and Kat primarily attend the North…
Brian Hagedorn
Brian joined our staff in 2014 and has served as both Director and Associate Director of our Student Ministry during that time. As the youngest of seven children, he is passionate about youth ministry and young men truly being the men that God created them to be. Brian and his wife Lizz are pursuing biblical…
