NEW MACEDONIA MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA, USA

Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church is mostly an African American congregation in Pasadena, California, which is also active in the Southern California region. The congregation has members from all lifestyles and occupations including doctors, professors, teachers and social workers.
The church is very involved with the community. Services such as drug and alcohol rehabilitation programs and counselling youth are among the highlights of their volunteer work. In addition, on various holidays and occasions the church offers free meals to those who need assistance and fallen on hard times. One of the other highlights of the congregation’s activities is their highly praised choir and music of Gospel. The mezzanine in the sanctuary provides an appropriate location for recording and filming the choir. The baptism in the baptism pool or baptistery is one the most important occasions on the church’s gatherings. The baptism pool is located as such that allows the congregation to observe the ceremony.
The facility presented in this presentation provides necessary spaces for all the activities that church provide allowing more growth for their various humanitarian missions and programs. Many symbols interpreted in the design represent the core values of the church, which are healthy/strong spirituality assisted by reliance on Gospel and word of God per scriptures.