Sonya Thompson

A New York City native born into a military family, Sonya Thompson is an author and educator who has also served in ministry over thirty years. She also teaches students with special needs in the DeKalb County School System. She presently resides in Atlanta, Georgia.

During her youth, Sonya earned national acclaim in bowling. She began bowling in the American Junior Bowling Congress at age six and ultimately became an avid competitive bowler, ranking in the “Nation’s Top Ten” for individual series at age twelve. The Georgia Women’s Bowling Congress later recognized her with the 1980 Star of Tomorrow Award.

At age thirteen, Sonya began her work in ministry teaching Sunday school alongside her mother at the Religious Education Center at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Thompson continued teaching Sunday school, Vacation Bible School, and children’s church at various locations when she became an adult. Her passion in ministry is creative dance. Sonya began her ministry as a praise dancer with In His Presence Dance Ministry at Living Word Christian Center in Augusta, Georgia, in 1990.

Sonya is an alumna of the University of Georgia, and has been a parent advisor (PA) with the Georgia Parent Infant Network of Educational Services (GA PINES) for twenty-eight years providing early intervention services for parents who have infants with vision and hearing impairments. Sonya was commissioned into the United States Army Reserves and proudly served her country as a medical service officer with the 382nd Field Hospital in Augusta, Georgia, for six years.

Sonya is also excited about the first book in her forthcoming children’s series titled Rubi and Rudi, a short story centered around the friendship between a young girl from an American military family and a native German boy from a host family living in Augsburg, Germany.