Pastor Dan Sieker received a B.A. in Music Education and a Master’s Degree in Music Performance from Arizona State University.  After graduation, he married Cheryl Collins and was a musician for the U.S. Army Field Band.  He traveled all over the world playing his clarinet.  He returned to Arizona, teaching instrumental music and ministering to young married couples.  Later he earned a Master’s of Divinity from Talbot Theological Seminary.  He worked as a church planter and pastor in California and Washington before coming to Roseburg.  He pastored the North Roseburg Evangelical Free Church for 26 ½ years and retired in February of 2015.

Pastor Sieker and his late wife, Cheryl, are founding members of Geneva Academy.  Pastor Sieker has served for many years on the Geneva Board, two years as the Board Chair.  He started Geneva’s Latin program and taught the grammar level classes for many years.  After a break from teaching to care for his wife, he is again teaching Latin to grammar and upper-grade students.   Pastor Sieker oversees Geneva’s music program and is planning the future expansion of musical instruction and events.  Additionally, he will teach Rhetoric IV to seniors and help guide them through their capstone projects.  Pastor Sieker states “Classical education connects all subject matter together so that a large picture of life is built into the students.  When every subject is a part of the whole, God is shown to be the creator of all truth, whether it is church history or math.  As a student is biblically educated, he can view the creation to be, as Calvin said, the gallery of God’s creative mind, and He gets all the glory.”

dsieker@genevaroseburg.com