Services
Sundays
9:30am
-Adult Education
10:30am
-Worship Service
-Youth Education
Nursery care provided.
Communion celebrated the first Sunday of every month
Meet our new Pastor! Reverend Sonja Ingebritsen
Sonja comes to us from the Plymouth UCC in Oakland, CA. As the daughter of a Lutheran minister, she has been actively
involved in church since she was a teenager. During high school, she spent time in Australia as a delegate
to the World Council of Churches Conference on Evangelism. Sonja graduated with her BA in Psychology
from Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, WA in 1983 and her MDiv at the Pacific School of Religion in Berkley,
CA, in 2009.
During the 10 years following completion of her BA, Sonja worked in a variety of social service agencies including Metrocenter YMCA, Senior Services of Seattle, Catholic Community Services, and Simple Justice, which is an ecumenical consortium supporting civil rights for gays and lesbians. From 1995 to 2002 she worked on a variety of fiction and creative non-fiction writing projects. She also worked with program operations for the Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center in Seattle, WA from 2003 to 2006. She became a Minister-in-Training at Orinda Community Church in 2007 where she remained until 2008. During 2009, Sonja has been working as a Teaching Assistant to Professor Boyung Lee at Pacific School of Religion while finishing her MDiv.
During her leisure time, Sonja enjoys creative activities, deep conversations, time with friends and family, board and card games, movies and popcorn, time in nature, reading, walking/hiking, and writing.
Marisa Winegar, Choir Director
Marisa Winegar bio coming soon!
Bryan Kelso Crow, Pianist
Bryan has been our regular piano player since 2004, having served as a substitute or guest musician ever since he started attending the church in 1987. He occasionally supplements the keyboard music with flute, pennywhistle, and even the accordion. Musical selections range from hymn tunes to classical works to Irish and American folk melodies, with original compositions thrown into the mix now and then. Bryan is an Associate Professor of Speech Communication at Southern Illinois University, is host of the weekly Public Radio program Celtic Connections, and plays Irish music throughout the region with The Dorians.