Angola (Lubango)
YFC Ministry Center Master Plan
Angola Youth For Christ
eMi Project 5420

late February/ early March 2007

DEC 19, 2007 UPDATE
EMI traveled to Lubango, Angola in March 2007. While there, the team surveyed the 27-acre site, sampled the water quality from a beautiful creek running through the property, measured the existing ruins of large buildings from an old animal husbandry operation, and prayed with Bernardo Chinoia about his vision for a youth camp on the property.

The final design includes a master plan to guide the development of this huge piece of property through the next decade, agricultural plans, and architectural and construction drawings for the Phase I buildings: a dining hall and an easily-replicable camper cabin. With these facilities and a new guard house, the ministry will be able to run sustainable summer camps for kids from all over Angola. The long-term development of the site includes a vocational training school, a short-term missionary training center, short- and long-term housing, recreational facilities, a chapel, a multi-purpose hall, and an amphitheatre.

Update Pictures
EMI team photo
Nate and Jonathan preparing as-built drawings of the ruins on site.
EMI-designed master plan of the site
Perspective drawing of the EMI-designed dining hall

Original Photos
Photos of the Farm #1
Photos of the Farm #2

Original Project Scope
This huge piece of former farm land has come into the hands of a Youth For Christ worker with a vision that’s big enough to equal it! His vision includes a camp for young people during school holidays, a short-term minstry training program, a professional vocational/technical school where young people can learn specific skills (such as computers, carpentry, agriculture, sewing, cooking, accounting,…), a center for AIDS prevention (not just education!), a retreat center for churches, and finally agricultural and farming micro-enterprises and co- ops!

With a vision like this, and a piece of land so seemingly limitless, it will be critical to have a well-thought out master plan that will guide them in development for the next few decades! This abandoned pig and chicken farm just outside of Lubango has several structures that need reconstruction and a few stables that are in ruins, but with its beautiful landscape, extensive agriculture land, fruit trees and vegetable gardens, sloping mountainside, wide valley and river, the potential is enormous!

Do you have vision enough to handle such a challenge? We must not squander such amazing resources when God sees fit to entrust them to us! More than 30 years of war has left many children and teenagers orphaned, disabled, broken, and hopeless. Families and their support structures have been destroyed, and God has been put aside, thought to have long-forgotten them. Let’s join with YFC in establishing a place for the Gospel to light the nation and the message of hope and restoration to be proclaimed!

Project Team
Scott Powell – eMi Team Co-leader
Gary MacPhee – eMi Team Co-leader
Nate Smith - eMi Intern and architect
Colin Tomsett - eMi Intern and architect
Graham Dennis - Surveyor
Jonathan Wetmore - Architect
Robert Donahue - Architect
Terry Podmore - Agricultural Engineer
Chris Ranck - Environmental Engineer
Rod Beadle - Civil Engineer
Jeff Harless - Structural Engineer
Perfecto Martinez - Electrical Engineer

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