Our staff

rev. Haley Ballast, pastor

Pastor Haley graduated with her Masters in Divinity from the Seattle University School of Theology and Ministry in 2021 and was ordained as a Minister of Word and Sacrament in the PCUSA in 2022. She served as a Community Organizing Intern at the Church Council of Greater Seattle, a Chaplain Intern at St. Joe's in Tacoma, and a Bridge Pastor for Hagar's Community Church at the Washington Correctional Center for Women in Gig Harbor before arriving as the Transitional Pastor at Wallingford Presbyterian in November 2023.

Haley is committed to building strong, equitable, interconnected communities. She loves meeting new people, collaborating with others, and leading through change and challenge.

In June 2024, the congregation voted to call Haley as our Installed Pastor and an installation service was held in October 2024.

Nicole busacca, director of community engagement

Nicole has always been passionate about the intersection of spirituality and justice in community life. She explored this at Whitworth University, where she double majored in Theology and in Development Studies in 2019, as well as at Princeton Theological Seminary, where she earned her Master of Divinity in 2022. Nicole has interned at Princeton Presbyterians, a campus ministry at Princeton University; served as Program Assistant for the Peace & Spirituality Center in Bellevue, WA; and provided spiritual care via tarot readings through her business, Tuning In.

Nicole believes that transformation happens through relationship and leans on this as she supports our community through learning journeys. She loves to connect, have conversations, facilitate, play, resource, grow together, and tend the feelings at the core of every learning journey.

WPC ordained Nicole as a ruling elder in February 2025 and she joined the staff as Director of Community Engagement in December 2025.