Our Staff & Leadership

Therin hails from Nashville, TN by way of a few other places. Prior to joining the staff at Westminster, she worked in the consulting and nonprofit industries. She also spent a year in new church development in Mukilteo, WA. She is a proud alumna of United World College of the Atlantic (high school), Stanford University, and Princeton Theological Seminary. In her unscheduled time, she loves getting to know her neighbors, watching hockey, playing cello at a beginner level, getting outside, and doing just about anything with her family. She and her college sweetheart, Alex, have three kids and two beloved Australian Shepherds.

Domenique was born and raised in Tacoma and attended Pacific Lutheran University for her Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration and Human Resources. Since 2014, she started to work in social media for non-profit organizations, fashion designers, and political campaigns. She has great experience working with people who have special needs and mental illnesses and also being trauma-informed. During her free time, she enjoys spending time with her husband and four children in Lacey. She is excited to be here at WPC and looks forward to connecting with you all! 

Sarah was born in Quinault, Washington, and raised in the rural town of Humptulips. She has attended Presbyterian churches throughout her life and has learned a lot about church leadership and children’s ministry through the years of watching her mom, who is a retired Presbyterian pastor and former children’s minister. Sarah loves working with kids and families and has served in multiple churches as a youth group volunteer. In 2007, she graduated from Trinity Lutheran College with a BA in Biblical Studies. She started working in hospitality and children’s ministry at WPC in 2018, and is delighted to have added to her role, in 2022, the leadership of WPC youth. Sarah spends her free time writing, painting, and reading a variety of novel genres.  She and her husband, Steven, grew up in opposite ends of Grays Harbor County, met in 2009, married in 2011, and now live in Olympia. The couple welcomed their son, Sebastian, in December 2018.

Dawn Sonntag has extensive experience as a church musician across the U.S. and in Germany. Before relocating to Olympia in 2019, she taught full-time at Gonzaga University and at Hiram College in northeast Ohio. Dawn earned a D.M.A. in composition and voice, with a minor in choral conducting, at the University of Minnesota; an M.M. in choral conducting at the Ohio State University; and a graduate artist diploma in piano at the Hochschule für Kirchenmusik, Heidelberg. She composes operas and choral, instrumental, and solo vocal music and loves to explore trails, rivers, and foreign languages with family and friends.

Lawrence came to Westminster in 2014. He is married to Andrea and has five children: Cassy, Isabella, Lauren, Jacob and Ariela. Lawrence loves serving, volunteering and learning new skills. "God, wife, family is the order to my life."

Samantha Curtis was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland and earned her Bachelors of Arts in Sociology at University of Maryland Baltimore County. As she embarked upon her career, she made the conscious choice to dedicate herself, time, talents, and strengths to amplify the voices of marginalized people and communities to help lift others up. Deeply humbled by the opportunity to join Hope Village, she will strive to do as much good as possible. In her free time, Samantha loves to hike, read, explore, create, and experience life with her family.