David Greenlee
Minister of Faith Formation

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Email: way.david@hotmail.com
Phone: 425-778-2159 ext #2231

David Greenlee is a husband and father of two grown children. He has worked for 3 decades in ministry with teens and all ages. He is a trained therapist and teacher. He loves to write stories, plays and create games. Imagination and passion fuel his love for people and learning.   
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Volunteer Adult Staff

These fantastic individuals are essential to WAY Student Ministries!
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Getting to know Erik

1) How long have you been working with WAY Student Ministries?  Since WAY’s inception
2) Share a favorite memory from your own high school years  Cutting out on senior skip day as a junior (legitimately--honor students were exempted from being on campus when we had no class), going with friends to Waimea Beach and jumping off the top of the rock 22ft into the ocean…Goes along with the thrill of doing something for the first time, and having a blast enjoying the elements of wind, sun, and water
3) High School you graduated from? Punahou Schools (Honolulu, Hawai’i; established 1841)
4) What draws you to work with students? I enjoy the mentoring process, and take pleasure in seeing young adults grow in leadership and spirituality.  I love challenging people, and getting them to think about their positions—whether they are adamant or uncertain.
5) What's your day job? I have no day job.  Oh, you mean what do I do while working at night?  I help train or troubleshoot issues, people see/call/visit/text/IM us when they don’t know why they can’t do their job…
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Getting to know Pat

1) How long have you been working with WAY Student Ministries? I have been working with David and WAY since David got here, all 12 years. I have been working with youth groups for 43 years.
2) Share a favorite memory from your own high school years In high school I had long hair in an era when long hair was not allowed. I was a rebel and a "Hippie." I was called "Miss Smith" by teachers, kicked out of school multiple times, dropped from sports teams and reprimanded by school administration staff all because of the length of my hair. I always stood up to them saying I have the right to be me, not who you want me to be. I am proud to say that by my senior year many of the school policies had changed. I never realized how much I was being watched until my 40th class reunion and classmates told me stories they remembered me standing up to the teachers and staff and many of the things I said. I never knew how much they were watching and that it would be remembered throughout their lives. 
3) High School you graduated from?  I graduated from Meadowdale High School
4) What draws you to work with students? I have always enjoyed working with youth and giving back guidance, encouragement and support to the youth. My favorite saying was by a man named Forest Witcraft - "A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove... but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child."
5) What's your day job? Living and Loving Life. 

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Getting to know Christena

1) How long have you been working with WAY Student Ministries?  I’ve been working with WAY since it started and with high school and middle school youth off and on since David started his work with teens. (David’s my hubby.)
2) Share a favorite memory from your own high school years  Some of my favorite memories are from my own youth group in middle and high school--Luther League. And some of the most meaningful memories are from Winter Retreats at a cabin in the Sierra foothills, with LOTS of snow, a big fire, singing and being with friends and adults who cared about kids.
3) High School you graduated from? Placer High in Auburn, California.
4) What draws you to work with students? I enjoy working with kids/teens--they have such enthusiasm in their search for their selves. They are open and love learning, growing and creativity. And they love to have FUN!
5) What's your day job? I am a clinical social worker in private practice counseling. 90% of my practice is working with teens and kids.
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Getting to know Joe 

1) How long have you been working with WAY Student Ministries? I started occasionally helping with the high school youth starting in 1985 and more regularly in the mid/late 1990’s (95-99?)
2) Share a favorite memory from your own high school years Going to my first rock concert – Three Dog Night.
3) High School you graduated from?  Warden High
4) What draws you to work with students? Their energy, ability to accept others, openness to new ideas and it keeps me acting young too.
5) What's your day job? Well lets see.... some of this.... and then some of that.... maybe even a little here or there..... 
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Getting to know Sue

1) How long have you been working with WAY Student Ministries? Since fall of 2008  but working with youth goes back to about 1984/5
2) Share a favorite memory from your own high school years. Canoe trips with youth group.
3) High School you graduated from? Mountlake Terrace
4) What draws you to work with students? Still trying to figure that out.  I guess I haven't grown up yet.
5) What's your day job? Strategic Sourcing Clerk aka working in purchasing
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Getting to know Kristen

​1) How long have you been working with WAY Student Ministries?   This is my first year working as an adult leader with WAY. However, it wasn't too long ago that I was a student member of WAY student ministries myself (2007-2013).
2) Share a favorite memory from your own high school years.  My favorite memory from my high school years is definitely the 2011 Idaho Servant Adventures Mission trip. I remember there was one evening after we were done serving and one of my friends went down in the basement of one of the main buildings, grabbed a stereo, and started a giant dance party with at least 50 other kids from multiple different churches. I got to spend a lot of time with some of my closest friends and I also made many new friends from different churches all over the country.
3) High School you graduated from?  I graduated from Kamiak in 2013.
4) What draws you to work with students? I've always had a passion for volunteering and helping wherever I can within the church. Working with students has always brought me so much joy and the energy that kids bring is always so exciting!
5) What's your day job? I'm a manager in the retail industry!