Recent Design Projects

Following are three recent design projects that I have been privileged to work on with the help Dale Slusser from Helps Ministries, Caleb Walder from California Baptist University, and Julian Rexam, a young architectural graduate who I worked with while in India last year.

Life International School, Madrid, Spain

Measkrin Village Church, Tanzania

Missionary home in Indonesia

School of Promise, Pattyaa, Thailand

This past month, through the Lord's amazing leading, Thailand missionary Amy Brock-Devine, who is in the states on home assignment, visited our church missionary team to share the latest things that the Lord is doing through her service in Thailand. Amy serves in Pattaya, a spiritually dark environment where trafficking of children in prostitution is rampant and the light of our Lord is greatly needed.

Amy is a school teacher by education. She shared the following: "It was after midnight and we had been in Pattaya a few days. We thought we were dancing in a typical dance club in this beach town on our company holiday Thanksgiving. At 26 years of age, I left crying from that cleverly disguised brothel. However, seeing women that seemed as young as 14 years old inside the club and the groups of children outside the clubs on the streets, it seemed as though a veil was being removed from my eyes." The Lord has used this experience to lead Amy to serve the youth and children of Thailand, and in Pattaya in particular. She has been serving for several years, most recently with Compassion to Every Nation. Her goal is to open schools in Asia, beginning in Pattaya, partnering with  The School of Promise (TSOP).  THIS IS THE CONNECTION WITH YOUR'S TRULY.

Following her meeting at our church, finding out that I serve the Lord through Architecture, and hearing from the Lord through a message she listened to a couple days after our meeting, she felt the Lord was leading her to think Big concerning the Pattaya Christ based school, and also to contact me.  So, this ias all in the early stages, but the school is to be constructed in three phases, starting with 100 primary aged students, eventually growing to 1000 primary and secondary students. Please pray for Amy, her Thailand team, and me as well as this unfolds.  They will need to seek the "right" piece of land; I may fly over to help with this process shortly after she returns to Thailand.  It is so exciting to see how the Lord connects the dots.

CBU & Crux Design Studio

This past year, out of the blue, I was asked to be consider interviewing to be the director of the relatively new architecture program at California Baptist University (CBU). As I have never formally taught at any higher educational institution in the past, this truly took Sally and I by surprise. I was told that their interest in me was due to the architectural missionary service. We were honored, and figured it might be worth submitting information and such. We did interview, and the director position was not a good fit for me, but relationship with CBU is turning out to be an amazing testimony to the work of our Lord in intertwining ministries, education and even private architectural practice.

Mark Roberson

ARCHITECTURAL ADVISORY BOARD: Mark Roberson, the dean of the college of Visual Arts and Design, has asked me to be a part of their advisory board consisting of, in my opinion, much more accomplished and worthy architects in various parts of our country.  This is a new advisory board, and it is so humbling and such an honor to be a part of this organization 

Dr. Matthew Niermann

Caleb Walder

CRUX DESIGN STUDIOS: Dr. Matthew Niermann, who initiated the schools contact with me, along with Caleb Walder, both professors at CBU have enlisted me in a vision that we trust the Lord to be bringing together in a new ministry named Crux Design Studios (Crux). Crux has linked with Helps Ministries, the organization that I serve through, and a relatively new private business I formed last year called WHL Architecture PLLC (WHL are my dad's initials, see earlier blogs on my dad to further understand the significance of using his initials). The vision is to provide an architectural ministry that can enable college students (initially CBU students) to earn many of the internship credits required to eventually become a licensed architect, while attending school, and, most importantly, exposing these students to serving our Lord through architecture throughout our country and world.  Helps provided the 501C3 structure, and is such an awesome ministry as it is flexible to allow this to occure; CBU will provide the student services and instructional platform, and WHL will provide a licensed architectural firm and architect to provide design supervision, a requirement for architectural licensing internship credits. Much more to come from this later as the Lord leads.

I think the main thing, for now, is that when I thought I was forming a side company to provide services my main job isn't able to provide, and when Matthew thought he was seeking a potential candidate for the CBU director of architecture position, the Lord was orchestrating a new ministry like no other that presently exist for architecture students while they are enrolled in college.

My dad and hero, William Henry Luebben