About five years ago, our church eldership or the board, started to look at the possibility,
what will the next season of HungryGen look like. Unfortunately not a lot of churches are for sale,
and a lot of other places that were for sale, they were not very good. For many
years we were looking at it, looking at it and then what took place is that,
on June 25th 2021 (so that's about a year and a half ago). We purchased a building
in Kennewick for 3.127 million dollars. This is that place. It's off of Edison and Canal Drive.
This is the place where it's going to be the future home of HungryGeneration. It used to be,
I think a skating arena and then it became a welfare place. The beautiful part about this
place is, it does not have supporting beams in the sanctuary, in the building. It's pretty much just
a clear open box, which allows us to do whatever we want to do there, for the glory of God. It's
really close to Kamiakin. It's really close to Edison Street. There's a potential bridge being
built from Edison to Pasco, potentially it's in works. This is the building that we have
purchased. The problem, the good thing with this building is that, we can have more people there.
But the parking lot, as you can see, is very small. So we were presented with a problem and
that is, we can't expand fully there unless we have parking lot. Next to the building,
a land was for sale. We purchased the land that year for a million 240 hundred thousand dollars.
This is pretty much how it looks is this is the building that we have purchased and then
next to this building, we purchased the land. The land came also with a parcel for a Triplex
and we felt that it would be very good to have an exit, on both sides, on Edison because Edison is
very busy and Canal is busy and so that we can have exit and entrance on both sides, so that
we can have a large parking lot and so that we can have a housing in the future, for the internship.
The two fourplexes right here, the owner was already willing to sell them to us,
but he went back on it which is good, because we don't have the money and so but they will
be available probably in the future and will be able to, by God's grace this is kind of a dream,
don't tell this, to the Alvarez guy yet, but we're gonna buy out these fourplexes. We're gonna buy
all of this out and have a new sanctuary, that will seat about two thousand or to four thousand
people, right here. The city will pay for the bridge to Pasco and then HungryGen will be in
the center of what is happening in our region. So that's the future. And also we'll buy also,this
thing behind, but just please don't tell them that yet. I'm just letting you know,
but for now, this is where we're at and this is giving us enough space and enough time to
do this thing for our church. Now, here is how it's going to look as you see a parking lot, a
house that will be here in the future, the church and the playground for kids. This is the aerial
view of the facility. The sanctuary will have an arise of like bleachers type looking, so that it
will give a really good view for people who are sitting on the back, instead of only looking at
the screens. The colors will be different. This is just an example of what this would look like.
The sanctuary will seat about 900 people, which is a very large increase from 200. We
can technically only sit 198 or 99 people here. This will give us a really large opportunity for
that. We will be able to have 400 children in one service in the Kid Zone, we'll be able to have 18
classes for children and about 16 offices at the same time. Our challenge with this
building plan was not only to create a plan, where we can seat as many people as possible,
but where we can have a spacious lobby, where we can have also a hangout place with coffee shop and
also where we can have enough space for children on Sunday morning as our church is growing,
more people are having children, which is children are blessing from the Lord and so we want to have
a lot of space for children, but we also want to prepare everything in such a way, that we
can build a private school there as well. We were in consultation with churches that have schools
and in consultation with people who do this for a living and they advised us. It took us a long
time to finally make a plan where everything is already going to be pre-planned and made where
a private school can happen with a switch. Everything is there already, the playground,
the classes. Everything is set up for a private school. If the Lord gives us the finances,
we'll be able to launch the private school, as soon as we move in. Until then, we're just gonna
have everything ready. So that's why, it took us, so much time to develop all these plans. Because,
we didn't want to develop a plan for church and then two years down the road, as we see the woke
agenda is really advancing in schools and then we're like oh we want to do a school. Then we
have to redo the whole thing again, trying to redo a construction. We wanted to do it one
time and do it right, instead of redoing it later on. This is the first floor, as you are seeing,
this is going to be the sanctuary. The entrance, there will be two entrances, one is for the main
entrance for the church and then the second entrance is going to be for the children.
This will be the check-in area. It's going to be pretty spacious and then the toddler's room,
the nursery rooms and then parents will be able to drop off their children and actually go into
the common area or into the coffee shop straight through the building, or they can go from the
outside. We will have two floors in there, which is one of the reasons, we're raising the roof.
I'm going to mention to you in a second is that because this space is not really big, we wanted
to optimize it for our classes and in order to do that, we had to find a way to fit a lot
of classes in a small space without sacrificing the sanctuary spacing. So the main floor as you
see will have six classrooms, two offices, two multi-purpose rooms. What I'm excited about is
not only the really nice spacious lobby, but we will have a large multi-purpose room that almost
could fit about the same amount, as we have right here in the sanctuary. We'll be able to
have two of these rooms. One in here and one on the second floor for internship, where we
have almost like two small sanctuaries that we will have straight within that building, not
including the rest of the 18 classes. So we will have a lot of space, to do a lot of good stuff.
Come on somebody. How many of you excited? Now this is not how this is going to look. We will
not have these fans. I can guarantee you that and these colors. This is just to kind of give
you a baseline of how this will look. It will be extremely spacious, 19 feet, so about from here
to the ceiling over there. It's going to be very spacious. There will be three entrances. Inside,
there will be a coffee shop and then we will have a hangout area in there. If you go upstairs,
you can go into the internship or a multi-purpose room, that is going to be there. This is going
to be media overseeing into the sanctuary, so they can see what's happening out there.
The sanctuary, as you have seen, we will be able to enter in, there will be the room for
the mothers with children, right there and then we will have a really nice kitchen for that as well,
and a seating like a balcony seating on both sides. This is the view from the stage.
This is going to be the view from the back, into the stage.
Now, we will have rooms on both sides, we'll call them green rooms, where people who are
ministering or who are preparing to preach will be on both sides. Either worship team on one side and
ministers on the other side. We will have a second story also for some storage. We are developing
some underground tunnels under the stage, secret passages and so we will do some secret stuff,
like hiding wires. I'm just kidding. Then we will have a water baptism right here, where we pretty
much instead of going in there, it will just open up. You'll go get baptized, we close it down and
the service will continue and the incredible part is, the dream that I've always had and failed at
it for the last 19 years, we'll finally be able to bring a car from the back straight into the stage.
A Porsche or a Tesla I don't know and so we will have enough space in here,
where we can actually bring, whatever production that we need to do on the stage.
Whatever that we choose to do as a ministry, right now we're so limited, with these
tiny doors. But we'll be able to do very large productions, if we need to. We can bring camels,
if we want to on Christmas. We can finally do, what we can, without the limitations. Amen.
Really excited for that. I can only imagine the creative ideas the Lord will give me.
Upper floor, the second floor will have classes, as I mentioned and also it will have offices on
the second floor. One of the challenges that we have with this building and that is this
is that we cannot raise the roof. From the ground till about the ceiling is 19 and a half to about
20 feet. The foundation of the building is not strong enough to raise the roof and beams of the
building are so low. Because these beams are so heavy, they carry so much weight. Therefore the
building doesn't have support system. The beams are five feet into the ceiling, that you can look
at and we can't raise the roof, which means that we're limited with the amount of classrooms we
can have or the amount of people that we can fit in the sanctuary. We honestly toiled and worked
with the city, with engineers. What can we do? We found a nice loophole around it is actually
to take these five feet beams, that hold the building, and instead of raising the roof,
to lift these beams up. So it frees up extra five feet, doesn't seem a lot, but it actually becomes
a lot, when it is freed up. What that allowed for us to create a second floor for the kid zone
and what it allowed for us is to create just a wider spacing in the sanctuary. So now the
challenge is, of course to create that. We got the permits and in fact, as we speak, in this week or
next week, the first beam is going to be going up. There will be these brackets, which our team
really worked very hard, Paul and the team, to save a lot of money on these brackets. So brackets
will hold these beams, so if you're seeing that this large beam is going to be elevated,
small beams connected to it, are held back right now, until this beam goes up and then the small
beams will be connected through the new brackets, through this large beam freeing up more space
and creating room for second floor for kids zone without us putting more weight on the foundation.
On the outside, this is that beam. It's covered right now with the facial. What's
going to be happening, is that these beams will stick out five feet. The
brackets will hold them and then we will create a cover all around so our building
will look taller even more taller on the outside as well. As you're seeing,
it's happening right now. So this is how the building looks from within. We got all of these
things, supporting the small beams, because as we lift the tall beams so that the building doesn't
collapse and then we are going to attach the small beams, to the large beam as well and thus we're
going to free up extra five feet. The reason that we are getting into a new facility is obvious. But
I still want to kind of remind us, that because of the larger sanctuary, extended parking lot,
the future private school, more office space, internship chapel and housing for interns.
As this building has become a place where we have grown, we have seen God do great things
for us. Building is a means to an end. The end is the purpose and the call of God. There's so much
activity, that happens at HungryGen. Monday through Friday and if you ever want to do,
just simply come in, at any time and just look at what's happening here. There is parking lot,
it's full. There's always somebody running around, doing something. this person praying,
this person... sometimes you walk by the office, somebody's screaming out, somebody's saying: Who
are you? Somebody is interviewing another student, somebody's counseling, somebody's praying.
Somebody's just eating donuts. Somebody recording videos. There's always an activity that is taking
place. We're impacting hundreds of students through this facility. It literally is like a
training ground. It's like a home for a spiritual family. It's a training ground for discipleship,
training ground for youth and the training ground for the next generation. The board of trustees,
and you can go on the website and see who are the board of the trustees, the older men are
overseers of the finances and the process of construction. I do want to let you know that,
our church's finances are under oversight of the board of trustees and the eldership.
The construction project is not being done by the prophecy. It's being done by the wisdom,
the council of people who know, what they're doing in this area, okay and I am not involved in it,
in the sense I'm just aware of it, but there are people who know this very well and they are deeply
involved, which frees me to do just more of the ministry and make sure that we have the finances.
That's my number one job. We have other people who are running this and doing this really well
and I'm really grateful for that, because building projects usually drain pastors like crazy. Because
there's so much work, that is involved in there. The person that runs the project for construction,
is the person with the baby face, which makes me honestly be very concerned about the future of
our church now, but actually that's the, okay so I feel better now. Paul is the
general contractor. For him, for Paul, this is not a job. It's like building a home for himself.
And this is why I love the person, not only that runs it, but even the whole team.
For us this is not about building for the church. We treat it as we would build our
own house. We try to honestly, Paul is doing his best to try to find best deals. But we
also don't want cheap stuff that then the ceiling collapses on us, all right. We want good stuff,
but we want for good price. So sometimes they would call and they would ask different companies:
''Hey, what about... you know... Could you give us a discount for HungryGen or this and that and they
found really amazing already deals with brackets and so much stuff, leveraging their connections in
the community for the sake of building God's house and I'm super excited for that. Amen.