We welcomed multiple new members to our church in November 2025. The December 2025 and January 2026 newsletters will both feature bios from our new members so our community can read and welcome these wonderful people to WUUC. This newsletter will feature bios from Quentin, Marie and Ezri Quiñones-Rezin, Eli Taylor and Lily Jones, Christine Deppe, and Kristina Gray. The December Newsletter featured bios from Barbara and Skip Tripp, Tony and Marie Porter, Kristina Schmidt, and Howard Voland.
Quentin, Marie, and Ezri Quiñones-Rezin
Marie is a high school English teacher who grew up in Southern California. Quentin spent his early years in Wisconsin and his teens in Arkansas, before moving to California to pursue his dream of a career making video games. They met online in their twenties and have been married for 11 years. In 2017, tired of the hot and dry summers of Southern California, they decided to move to the Pacific Northwest and start a family. Today, they live in the Maltby area with their 6-year-old daughter, Ezri (who loves to read and play with friends), and two cats. They were looking for a community that shares their values, and were delighted to find one as welcoming as WUUC so close to home.
Eli Taylor and Lily Jones
Eli grew up nearby in Lynnwood, Washington. He now lives in Snohomish with his spouse, his daughter Lily, and their dog Betty. Eli and Lily first came to WUUC in the summer of 2024, looking for a safe and supportive spiritual community for Lily to grow up in. We were warmly welcomed, and Lily immediately asked if we could keep coming back. Eli keeps busy working as a data analyst, attending online courses for a doctorate in data science, and also working part-time as a registered nurse. He enjoys nature and gardening, reading, board games and video games, and anything science-fiction related. As a family we also enjoy learning taekwondo together.
Christine Deppe
Christine Deppe grew up in Munich, Germany, worked in Advertising, New Media, TV and Online Retail before moving to Seattle in 2004, where she raised her kids Tim (19) and Sarah (17) with her husband, worked in non-profit accounting and joined the West Seattle UU with her family 10 years ago. She co-funded a Coworking space, a PTA, a Tech Startup and the West Seattle Bee Garden, an educational apiary. As a Master Forest Steward for Seattle Parks and a Climate Action Families activist she has planted and protected over 5,000 native plants and trees.
In 2020 she moved to Duvall to learn how to build community and live in the woods with 30 fellow nature lovers. After this transformative experience she built a tiny house village, where she keeps rabbits, chickens and ducks, studies farming and psychology, and spends most of her time outside homesteading with her partner Jeff. She joined the WUUC email list in 2020, Sister and Supper Circles in 24, the Campout, the Starting Point and Meditation group and Sunday services online this year. She is excited to be part of this accepting community with a deep regard for intellectual freedom and inclusive love.
Kristina Gray
Kristina Gray (Kris) is a mechanical engineer from Oregon State. Recruited by Boeing while in her junior year, she’s been working there for almost twenty years now.
Kris has an enthusiasm for life and getting to know people, and is interested in a variety of things…favorites included hiking/camping with friends, Jazz Alley concerts, vegetable gardening, writing and gaming. She’s recently taken up oil painting and usually has a few different knitting/crocheting and building/craft/technical projects in work at any given time.
Kris is grateful for all of the warm and welcoming folks at WUUC, and is excited to contribute where she can. Thank you for welcoming her into the fold of this vibrant and supportive community!
