Luis Trujillo, XA president, Helps Build Guatemalan Ministry Center

Check it out: our very own Chi Alpha pres­i­dent, Luis Tru­jil­lo, is in the Stan­ford Dai­ly for help­ing to con­struct a com­mu­ni­ty cen­ter for abused teens and oth­ers in Guatemala: Class designs facil­i­ty for Guatemalan town.

A Stan­ford archi­tec­ture class is play­ing a vital role in the con­struc­tion of a com­mu­ni­ty cen­ter and school in Amati­t­lan, Guatemala. Design­ing all aspects of the project — from dor­mi­to­ries to a church and retreat cen­ter — these stu­dents will show their work at a pro­fes­sion­al pre­sen­ta­tion to poten­tial clients and con­trib­u­tors on Mon­day.

The Guatemalan facil­i­ty will be a cam­pus for the Cen­ter for the Restora­tion of Women and the Social­ly Dis­re­gard­ed, also referred to as the CEREM project, after the Chris­t­ian orga­ni­za­tion spon­sor­ing its devel­op­ment. The cen­ter will act as a res­i­den­tial cen­ter and school for home­less chil­dren and for­mer pros­ti­tutes, as well as a church and place of retreat.

“One of the amaz­ing things about CEREM is the peo­ple who start­ed it,” said Luis Tru­jil­lo, anoth­er teach­ing assis­tant who is also act­ing as the client rep­re­sen­ta­tive respon­si­ble for com­mu­ni­cat­ing the facility’s needs to stu­dent design­ers. “They have real­ly chal­lenged me to give all that I have. You don’t do this because you feel sor­ry for these peo­ple, but rather you do it out of love for them and the poten­tial that you see in them.”

Luis has actu­al­ly been the key play­er in this thing from start to fin­ish. He’s got a mar­gin­al role in the arti­cle, but Luis is the guy who set the ball in motion, hooked CEREM up with the Stan­ford class, and has gen­er­al­ly been push­ing to make it hap­pen!

Way to go, Luis! We’re proud of you: get­ting a Stan­ford class to design a Chris­t­ian min­istry cen­ter is an awe­some way to lever­age the gifts and oppor­tu­ni­ties God has giv­en you.

UPDATE: there’s anoth­er arti­cle on the Stan­ford web­site that cov­ers the project from a slight­ly dif­fer­ent angle. It also gives Luis a lit­tle more promi­nence (well-deserved, I might add).

One thought on “Luis Trujillo, XA president, Helps Build Guatemalan Ministry Center”

  1. si ust­ed tiene libros del zodi­a­co o donde los puedo encon­trar

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