Church Staff
Rev. HT Lee
Pastor HT was born in South Korea and raised in Western Washington. He is an alum of the University of Washington and Fuller Theological Seminary. His ministry emphases and experience include: children’s, youth, college, adult ministries, creative and technical ministries, and chaplaincy. HT serves on the nominating committee for Seattle Presbytery, and coordinated the annual UNITE youth retreat and ministry partnership, connecting a diverse group of youth around Western Washington. He also serves on non-profit boards, including Northwest Family Life. HT brings a great sense of humor, excitement for ministry, wizardry in technology, extensive ministry experience and a deep, abiding love for Jesus Christ.
rev. lottie macaulay friedman
Pastor Lottie was born and raised in the Seattle area. She is an alum of Dartmouth College and Princeton Theological Seminary. She is passionate about helping young people see the great gifts God has given them and empowering them to use those gifts to share God’s peace and justice in the world. Outside of church, Lottie loves gardening, reading, and spending time outdoors with her husband and dog! OPPC is grateful for Lottie’s loving spirit, energy, humor, and wisdom.
rachel krohn
Rachel is our worship director and also the director of the Crossroads Community Choir. Rachel directed her first choir in high school as a student conductor of middle school singers at the Vancouver School of Arts and Academics, and has since directed choirs for decades in Sammamish and Bellevue. An accomplished soloist, Rachel’s true joy has been choral singing, beginning at 8 years old with the Melody Lane Singers in Yakima, WA and continuing in Iowa as part of the Des Moines Children Chorus’ touring choir. A fan of many genres, Rachel’s high school jazz choir performed at Carnegie Hall in New York City, and as a singer in the University of Washington Chamber Singers a tour of the Baltic countries inspired her to study the unifying power of song and the “Singing Revolution” of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Rachel has long dreamed of facilitating a choir that fosters community and encourages joy, where singers of all ages and levels of experience can grow together in the collective making of hopeful music.
nalena joseph
Nalena was born and raised in Bangalore city in the state of Karnataka, India. She finished her Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor in Theology from Karnataka Bible College. Since she was interested in Air ticketing, she also completed IATA.
Nalena loves gardening, cooking, and learning different languages. She speaks 5 languages that are spoken in India. She always loves spending time with my family, and always likes and wants to share good news about our Lord Jesus to the people who need him the most.
Neah Lee
Neah grew up on the east coast in Queens, NY and comes from several generations of pastors and missionaries in her family that were the fruit of the Pyongyang Revival of 1907. After serving and living in Southern California for a few years, she and her husband, a native of Seattle, moved to the PNW in 2013 soon after they got married. She received her Master of Divinity at Princeton Theological Seminary and has a broad and extensive background in education, ministry, and music having worked in various roles and capacities within numerous educational institutions, non-profits, conferences, and churches of varying denominations on both coasts . As a singer songwriter, she has written, produced, and recorded a few albums, toured nationwide, and performed globally both secularly and within ministry. She is passionate about raising up people and their gifts and passions to create, uplift, and inspire through collaborative leadership. That passion is rooted in the areas of spiritual formation, discipleship, artistry, and worship that is transformative, healing, inclusive, reconciling, and in pursuit of becoming God's beloved community.
JENNI MOnillas
Jenni is our Principal Organist and Accompanist and also the pianist/accompanist for our Crossroads Community Choir. She grew up in the north Seattle area and started playing piano when she was eight or nine years old. The next year she started violin lessons and continued with both through high school. Jenni and her three sisters play the instruments to form a string quartet, so that is a fun fact. In tenth grade, Jenni began organ lessons and continued through college. A few years after college, she also picked up the viola which has become one of her favorite instruments.
Beginning in Junior High and continuing through college, Jenni was a choir, ensemble, and solo accompanist. Her maternal grandfather said she was the best at it (may have been slightly prejudiced though). She has played service music for countless churches and chapels, and has accompanied and done synth work for community choirs. Playing with others is a joyful experience for Jenni, and she is very grateful for this ability.
Music touches everyone in so many ways, and Jenni enjoys most styles, especially those with inspirational lyrics and moving melodies and harmonies.