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The house was purchased by Ming & Mako
Nagasawa in January of 2000.
June 2000 – August 2001
3rd floor: Tischa Brown,
Melissa Rivera, Mao-Mei Liu, Leslie Moore
2nd floor: Liza Adriana
Cagua, Becky Mulligan, Mary Pavan, Kenita Spencer
1st floor: Ming and Mako
Nagasawa (child: John Nagasawa), Davina Ling
Basement: Jonathan Liu, Chris Tsang
Folks moved in; many took jobs in the
Dorchester area. We started kids' Bible club in the neighborhood,
which lasted for 2 years. In May of 2001, Ming and Mako felt God
giving them an opportunity to become caregivers for two of our
neighbor's kids, a brother and sister ages 6 and 13, respectively.
In the summer of 2001, Tischa, a
licensed Montessori school teacher, had a summer program on the 3rd
floor of our house called Harvest Montessori Summer Program. Twelve
children ages 3-7 attended in '01. See the
pictures!
Becky married Patrick Ray in May of
2001. In August of 2001, Chris moved into Fields’ Corner to start a
church plant focusing on the Vietnamese community. Jonathan moved to
Cambridge to pursue other ministry opportunities and explore moving
overseas to Muslim areas. Mary moved to Irvine, CA to pursue a Ph.D. in
chemistry at UCI.
September 2001 – August 2002
“Currently we are a multi-ethnic
household, attending various local churches in the Boston area, and
spanning 3 generations.”
3rd floor: Lavall Brown
(child: Dominique Isaiah Brown), Tischa Brown, Mao-Mei Liu, Leslie
Moore
2nd floor: Davina Ling,
Kenita Spencer, Liza Adriana Cagua
1st floor: Ming & Mako
Nagasawa (children: Stacy Ann and Christopher Johnson, John Nagasawa)
Basement: Khary & Jennifer
Bridgewater
Kids' Bible club continued, despite
some transitions in the neighborhood. We drew up the three parts
of the house vision statement. Tischa continued Harvest in the
summer, drawing 17 kids into the program.
In August of 2002, Mao-Mei moved back
to the Bay Area in California to be closer to her family.
September 2002 – August 2003
This year we spanned 3 generations.
3rd floor: Lavall Brown
(child: Dominique Isaiah Brown), Tischa Brown, Leslie Moore, Liza
Adriana Cagua
2nd floor: Davina Ling,
Kenita Spencer, Eddy & Laura Dueck (also Obenewa Amponsah for 3 months
when her apartment burned)
1st floor: Ming & Mako
Nagasawa (children: Christopher Johnson, John Nagasawa)
Basement: Khary & Jennifer
Bridgewater, Marisha Youngblood
Stacy moved back in with her mom in
Feb. '02. In the summer of 2003, we tried some community
organizing in our immediate neighborhood. We converted part of our
basement into a teen outreach center. We also set up a basketball hoop
in our backyard.
In August of 2003, Davina moved to Los
Angeles, CA
to become a professor of economics at Cal State Fullerton. Eddy & Laura
moved back to Germany to be a part of their church and family there. Khary, Jennifer, Marisha, and Obenewa moved to
27 Bushnell Street to start the InterVarsity Black Campus Ministries
House.
September 2003 – August 2004
This year we spanned 4 generations!
3rd floor: Lavall Brown
(child: Dominique Isaiah Brown), Tischa Brown, Grandma Mitchell (for
May – Nov ’04)
2nd floor: Leslie Moore,
Kenita Spencer, Liza Adriana Cagua, Lanika Clark (sponsored resident)
1st floor: Ming & Mako
Nagasawa (children: John, Zoe)
Basement: Chadrick Nick Palmer
(sponsored resident)
CJ moved back in with his mom in
October '03. Nick asked to move in at that time, and Lanika did a
few months later. To set clear expectations, we wrote up the house
rules. We got to know some teens through our basement; and four
teenage boys went with Leslie to worship at CCFC for several months.
In the spring of 2004, we got a swing
set and sand box for our backyard, which drew lots of neighborhood
children. We also started
house games night so that Nick and Lanika could have some fun
alternatives. Our house
focus turned a lot towards mentoring these two teens. In the
summer, we welcomed our Boston's Hope neighbors and started a Girls'
Club and a Boys' Club. After taking down the dining room-living
room wall, Ming and Mako began to host the Gathering Christian
Fellowship on the 1st floor.
In August of 2004, Tischa
moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin to teach kindergarten and reconnect with old friends.
September 2004 – August 2005
This year we spanned 4 generations!
3rd floor: Lavall Brown
(child: Dominique Isaiah Brown), Grandma Mitchell
2nd floor: Leslie Moore,
Helen Moon, Kenita Spencer, Liza Adriana Cagua, Lanika Clark (sponsored
resident)
1st floor: Ming & Mako
Nagasawa (children: John, Zoe)
Basement: Chadrick Nick Palmer
(sponsored resident until Nov.04)
We drew up the
seven house values. During the
summer of 2005, we helped convert the vacant lot next door into a
community garden, now called the Generations of Hope Community Garden.
See
the pictures here.
September 2005 –
August 2006
This year we spanned 4 generations!
3rd floor: Lavall Brown
(child: Dominique Isaiah Brown), Grandma Mitchell, Leslie Moore, Natasha Sam
2nd floor: Kenita Spencer, Liza Adriana Cagua,
Marjory Neret
1st floor: Ming & Mako
Nagasawa (children: John, Zoe)
Basement: Phil
Hou
September 2006 –
August 2007
3rd floor:
Carla Booker (child:
Sukhai Booker Rawlins)
2nd floor: Kenita Spencer,
Natasha Sam, Marjory Neret
1st floor: Ming & Mako
Nagasawa (children: John, Zoe),
Liza Adriana Cagua
Basement: Phil
Hou, Matt Gormley
September 2007 –
August 2008
3rd floor:
Carla Booker (child:
Sukhai Booker Rawlins)
2nd floor: Kenita Spencer,
Cathy Benoit, Kafui Tsaku
1st floor: Ming & Mako
Nagasawa (children: John, Zoe),
Liza Adriana Cagua
Basement: Phil
Hou, Matt Gormley
September 2008 – May
2009
3rd floor:
Carla Booker (child:
Sukhai Booker Rawlins)
2nd floor: Kenita Spencer,
Cathy Benoit, Kafui Tsaku
1st floor: Ming & Mako
Nagasawa (children: John, Zoe), Leslie Moore
Basement: Matt
Gormley
Liza Cagua married Dan
Koo and they moved 4 doors down!
June 2009 – January
2011
3rd floor:
Carla Booker (child:
Sukhai Booker Rawlins)
2nd floor:
Donna Jones (child: Justin Jones)
1st floor: Ming & Mako
Nagasawa (children: John, Zoe)
Basement: Cesar
Espinosa
Leslie Moore bought a
triple decker house down the street and started the
Traction
program
there! So now we are a community with three houses near each
other.
January
2011 –August
2015
3rd floor:
Carla Booker (child:
Sukhai Booker Rawlins)
2nd floor:
Donna Jones (child: Justin Jones)
1st floor: Ming & Mako
Nagasawa (children: John, Zoe)
Cesar Espinosa moved
to Leslie's house to be a mentor in the Traction program, then moved
home to California. Carla became a foster mom for a season, and later moved around the corner to a three story home
she was later able to purchase, and make part of the Traction program.
September 2015 -
August 2016
3rd floor:
Sierra Morton,
Sophia Pierre, Olivia Armstrong
2nd floor:
Donna Jones
1st floor: Ming & Mako
Nagasawa, Nagasawa children, Ming's parents John & Christina Wei
Ming's elderly parents
moved into our house.
August 2016 - March
2017
3rd floor:
Olivia Armstrong, Dira
Barbosa, Zoe Nagasawa
2nd floor:
Donna Jones
1st floor: Ming & Mako
Nagasawa, Nagasawa children, Ming's parents John & Christina Wei
Ming's mom Christina
Wei passed away in March 2017.
March 2017
- May
2020
3rd floor:
Olivia Armstrong, Dira
Barbosa, Zoe Nagasawa
2nd floor:
Donna Jones
1st floor: Ming & Mako
Nagasawa, Nagasawa children, Ming's dad John Wei
Ming's dad John Wei passed
away in May 2020.
June 2020
- April
2021
3rd floor:
Dira Barbosa, Zoe
Nagasawa
2nd floor:
Donna Jones
1st floor: Ming & Mako
Nagasawa, Nagasawa children, Carla Booker
Carla came back to
live with us while her house at 72 Esmond has some renovations done
April 2021
- August
2021
3rd floor:
Dira Barbosa, Carla
Booker, Zoe Nagasawa
2nd floor:
Donna Jones
1st floor: Ming & Mako
Nagasawa, Nagasawa children, Mako's dad Mas Nagasawa
September 2021
-
October 2021
3rd floor:
Dira Barbosa, Carla
Booker, Laura Mitchell
2nd floor:
Donna Jones
1st floor: Ming & Mako
Nagasawa, Nagasawa children, Mako's dad Mas Nagasawa
Zoe moved out to start
her freshman year in college. Our friend Laura Mitchell took her place.
Then, Dira and her friend Saranya bought a house at 15 Southern Avenue,
just a few minutes away!
October 2021
-
present
3rd floor:
Carla Booker, Laura
Mitchell
2nd floor:
Donna Jones
1st floor: Ming & Mako
Nagasawa, Nagasawa children, Mako's dad Mas Nagasawa
We applied to receive
an Afghan refugee family and are waiting on that!
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