The Project Trip

What a beautiful week! This past week I was in San Jose with a team of two other architects helping design a church facility for the Nazarene church in a neighborhood on the outskirts of the city. Currently they meet in this small sea-foam green home on Sundays. The church now packs 60 Costa Ricans into a retrofitted living room as they sing songs and preach the word of God to the community. They are located in a suburb of the city called "Los Angeles" and I was blown away by their heart to reach out the their community and transform their neighborhood for the glory of God. They already have a bunch of youth ministries and service projects but are struggling to accommodate all the people they would like to serve. So that's why they called eMi. An architect from the eMi office, an architecture professor from the states and I worked intensely this past week to create a masterplan of a new larger church facility for this ministry, as well as classrooms and support spaces to host the events they seek to have. Here is a picture of us with the ministry at our presentation at the end of the week. Believe it or not I actually presented my part of the project in Spanish....poor Spanish...but Spanish none the less! I will have more posts coming about this week. Too much happened to sum up in a single post. I learned so much about the bigness of our God and feel blessed to have a glimpse of his work in San Jose, Costa Rica!