Big Idea – “A thriving COMMUNITY flourishes beside living water on the journey to WHOLENESS. PROTIVATIONAL truth draws thirsty sojourners to the VIBRANT gathering and the source of TRANSFORMATION.”

Partnering with Dale Borgan (Executive Producer), I led the blue-sky effort to recast Verve Community’s undeveloped property as “Cross Creek,” an outdoor-inspired campus where a dry arroyo is reborn as living water and every trail, bridge, and building guides guests toward holistic wholeness. The master plan layers worship, community, and recreation zones along a literal creek bed that becomes the ministry’s metaphorical source of transformation, culminating in a baptism fountain that anchors the front yard.

My Contributions

• Shaped the story spine that informed the design and landscape gesture.
  • Characters = thirsty sojourners
  • Setting = Cross Creek
  • Plot = Gather → Drink Deep → Flourish

• Directed campus-wide art direction, curating mood boards for materials, weathered cedar, corrugated metal, desert botanicals, and bright SoCal accents.

• Collaborated with concept artists to lock the hero renders: Worship Center entry, Kids’ Center facade, and baptism creek-walk experience.

Collaborative Team

• Dale Borgan – Executive Producer | client relations, scope & budget alignment

• Joshua Kim & Missy Anderson – Project Managers | schedules, deliverables, stakeholder feedback

• Matt Molsberry – Architect (Master Planning) | phased site strategy, campus massing, code coordination

• Todd White & Frank Grau – Concept Art | key sketches, cinematic renders

• Abby Koenig – Graphic Design | brand palette, environmental signage, icon system

• Robin Larsen – 3-D Modeler | digital massing models, phased master-plan visuals

Deliverable & Impact

Our blue-sky package, storyboard deck, phased master plan, mood boards, hero renders, cost roadmap, and 3-D visualizations equip Verve Community to fund-raise and sequentially build a campus where people gather at Cross Creek, drink from Living Water, and grow into a vibrant, transformative community.