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.
