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Management:

 
Christian Blech
  
    As Supervisor of Fabrication, Co-Supervisor of Research and Web, Christian has spent many hours researching the specs of the sanctuary as well as working on overseeing and building the  model sanctuary. He  was born into the Adventist church with both of his parents being SDA. When asked how he saw agape through this project Christian said, "Doing this project has taught me how many ways there are to show God's love."

Ethan Johnson
        As a Fabrication Supervisor, Ethan has helped manage and complete the different tasks required to build the model sanctuary. Ethan grew up Adventist and said that through this project he observed how, "God can conquer everything, including the hard tasks in this project"

    Kianna Rosales

        As a worker of Web & Design and a Media Editor, Kianna has helped by taking pictures and managing our different social media platforms. She was born into an adventist family, which has backgrounds stemming from Catholic, Pentacostal, and Jehovah's Witness backgrounds. When asked how she saw agape through this project she responded by saying, "Supervising the Web Team and making the social media content reminded me how easy it is to reach other people and help remind them of how much God loves us."
   
    Maleah Moses
        Maleah is the supervisor of Art & Design, Music & Video, and is the Co-Supervisor of research. Maleah, as long as the other managers, have been sending weekly progress reports to Pastor Gregory. During the length of the project she helped oversee and contribute to the art and music departments to make sure that we got them done in time. She, as well as the other managers, was born into the Adventist church. When asked how she saw Agape through this project Maleah said, "The project has shown me how readily available God's love is, and it's actually up to us to turn around and accept it."

Task Force:

        The following people were asked three questions. What is your job in this project, what is your religious background, and how has working on this project shown you Agape. Here are their answers.


   Rheanna Cabacungan  

        - Photographer / Media Editor
        - Born SDA, Family has Catholic background
        - Working on the media part of Agape showed me how important it is to tell others about God’s love, it also brought me a lot of joy seeing that we reach more and more people because of         the message that we’re sharing.

Aden Padron

        - Web Department leader/ Programmer 
        - My mother was raised SDA and my Father was raised Catholic. I was raised SDA
        - Working on the Website has shown me the importance of the community and that everyone can come together whether or not they are in different groups.

  Tolu Osundina
     
      - Website Associate
        - Fully SDA family
        -Working on this project has shown me God’s love through other people and how they are so understanding of your downfalls and struggles that stop you from doing work effectively.

    Ethan Stephens
 
      - Website/fabrication associate
        - Born to SDA dad, and Buddhist mom turned SDA
        - I have seen God's love through my friends. Working on the sanctuary and website with my associates shows me how kindness can make someone feel better about mistakes they make.

Matthew Moses
   
        - Expert Researcher turned Fabrication Helper
        - Born into the SDA Church.
        - I’ve seen God’s love in this project through the collaboration between different people. All these groups are working together towards a common goal.

  Daleth Genas
 
        - The great mind behind the research team ;). Liaison between God and the fabrication team
        - born SDA whole family is SDA and I am a strong believer in its doctrine.
        -the research I did on this project was a reminder of the expanse of Gods love

Kassandra Ramos
   
        - Research/Fabrication helper
        - Born and raised SDA, family has catholic background (now SDA)
        -Through working on this project I saw that God loved these people and set specific instructions for them to follow to build the sanctuary. If they didn't have such specific instructions the place wouldn't have been as special and holy place for them to worship and appreciate him.

    Kiet Chung

        - Member of Research team, In charge for finding the quotes in the bible for God’s Love
        - born with a different religious background
        - the project helps me to have a different perspective of how wide God’s love can be

Ryan Brown
   
        - construction
        - my religious background is SDA
        -I have learned nothing important to my faith from this project all it has shown is the sanctuary and all the specifics of how its made

Katelynn Canavan
  
        -Fabrication/ clay and sculpting
        -I grew up in a seventh day Adventist family. Went to small Christian schools and I grew up with Christian beliefs
        -I learned agape by working together and being kind to one another as we struggled through almost fighting and arguing with one another. I also learned that God's love to us is powerful         that we should also always ask others if they need help. And you should always pitch in when help is needed.

Elise Cantu

        - Board/Card Game maker
        -I joined the Seventh Day Adventist Church around 9 years old and have been raised in it ever since.
        -I have learned that it is possible to incorporate important themes from the bible and share them with others through fun games.

  Ethan Guillory

         -  Voice actor for puppet video
         - My mom was raised Catholic but changed to SDA, my dad is non-denominational Christian. I was raised in SDA.
        - I learned that God gives us the strength to stay focused, be patient, and work together to come up with a variety of different ways to show his love for people.

Tim Morin
 
        - Grunt Work on Sanctuary
        - Mother was raised SDA, father was raised Catholic. I was brought up in the SDA church.
        - I learned that everything in the sanctuary has a second meaning besides its primary purpose to the israelites.

    Chase Ferrer

         - Puppeteer and script writer for the agape puppet show.
        - I don't belong to any church denomination; neither do my parents.
        - I learned that agape conquers all by bringing humor in controlling a puppet.

Kassidi Clark

        -  art team member, sketch artist, painter, illustrator
        - first generation Adventist, became Adventist 2017
        - Painting all of the objects in the sanctuary has shown me that God’s love is beautiful.

  Caitlin Aispuro
  
         - art team member, sketch artist, card & t-shirt designer, illustrator
        - My parents are the first SDA in my family and I am a baptized SDA church member.
        - I realized that the story of Jesus is really the most understandable representation of God’s love.

Mat Sepang

        - Art team member, graphic artist
        - Both my parents and I were born Seventh-Day Adventist
        - He gives me the strength to push through hard times, especially when all my work doesn’t save.

Gideon Tarango
   
        - Art team member, sketch artist, watercolorist
        - Born into the Adventist church, parents both born too
        - His love gives me the motivation to do what is asked of me and what I can accomplish.

Wyatt Watson
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        -Music vocal and writing and video
        -Raised SDA
        -Through the people and their teamwork

Mason Hirst
   
        - Musical composition/audio processing, contributed to storyboard
        -Raised Adventist
        -Unsure, but the harmonic series God created never gets old (at least, to me).

   Noel Hendrickson

        - Female Singer, StoryBoard writer, Actor
        - Born and raised in the SDA church, parents also Adventist
        - I saw God through the teamwork in my group and how we were inspired through each other’s dedication to musically interpret God’s love.

Robinson Lyu
  
        -music group guitarist, international group leader
        -atheism but open minded
        -I observe Agape through collaboration with all my classmates working on the same thing.

  Andres Padilla
 
        - Videographer/Video editor
        - Born and raised in the SDA and family is Adventist
        - This project has shown me God's love through music and beautiful nature. I have spent time capturing God’s gorgeous scenery.

Zach Zhang

        - Cartoon / Storybook Artist
        - My parents and I aren’t in a specific religion
        - I got to use a story about Daniel to help introduce how religion can help people find His love

Kiwi Li

        - Script Writer
        - None
        - The theme is love——love is the central point of the composition

Frank Lin

        - Researcher, Collecting / Analyzing data
        - No religious beliefs
        -  I have learned a lot about other religions besides Christianity, and how Agape is something that connects them all.

Albert Wang

        - Music & Video Editor
        - Atheist background and my mom is Christian
        - The fact that people can collaborate and get things accomplished though we had different opinions showed me Agape.

Vivian Xu

        - Researcher and Art Helper
        - I’m an SDA Christian and my parents aren’t religious)
        -  First I interviewed people, which gave them and I the idea of the whole research aspect. Then I organized an outline of the paper we internationals wrote. We separated the work into             different sections. I finished mine and helped others with their confusion. I’ve done two of the graphics. I interviewed four people.

David Hao

        - Researcher
        - No religious beliefs and my parents are Buddhist
        - I did my research part and an essay, and I saw Agape while our group was helping each other despite the distance between us.

William Cheng

        - Researcher
        - Our family has no religious beliefs
        - Everyone in our team is being friendly to each other, I think that is the most love God has given and shown to us.

Leblanc Ren

        - Video Editor
        - No religious background
        - In this project, we helped each other overcome problems we encountered. While we were doing this, our team had to keep in mind that we are doing this for God, and not ourselves.

Candy Tang

        - Comic Illustrator
        - Background is all atheist
        - From this group project, I know that the cooperation and interaction between members in group work is more important than the project. Because if one person does not work, the                 progress of the whole team can be compromised. I found that apart from my relatives, friends, teachers and elders, only God can love me unconditionally. Whenever I feel like I can't do             something or when I’m tired, I ask God to help my tired heart. When I suddenly feel helped and refreshed, I see God’s unconditional love.

Coco Ma

        - Script Writer
        - I grew up in a Buddhist family
        - It showed me God’s unconditional love through editing the scripts and finding examples to show how He shows

Ivy Ma

        - Writer / Artist
        - Raised by a Buddhist family
        - I was taught about Agape through this project by looking into how to draw, write, and describe examples from real life examples or ideas.

Joe Miao

        - Interviewer / International Analysis Writer
        - No religious background
        - Writing the paper for the results that we internationals got showed me how big God’s love is, that even across the world the people feel the impact he makes in their lives.



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