You can’t stand in the midst of the world and struggle for fundamental change unless you are standing in your own space and looking for change within.
— Howard Thurman
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In my ministry leading the Conference of Churches, I came to discover the importance of creating sacred spaces for new ministry. The 224 EcoSpace is such a place. When people come in they say they feel “something.” It is the sacred.

 
 
 

When I design a space, my interior design ascetic uses color, texture and the adaptive re-use of common objects into works of art infused with regenerative alchemy.

Gathering spaces at The 224 EcoSpace

 
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
— Joseph Campbell
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Gathering spaces at The 224 EcoSpace

 
Create your own sacred space to remember what God has done for you and to inspire what God is doing through you.
— Rev. Dr. Shelley Best
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The Meeting House

 
 

The Redeemer’s Church’s Meeting House is a space I converted to administrative offices and gathering spaces for healing. By redesigning the spaces around the church property the door was opened for social enterprise ventures and additional revenue streams.

 
The spaces we create are the canvas for our ventures.
— Rev. Dr. Shelley D. Best
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One of my joys was to create an altar piece of sorts for Ann Falkowski, owner of Samadhi’s Yoga Studio in Manchester, Connecticut, where I received my Yoga teacher training Certification. This idea was also applied when I designed the Yoga Studio at The 224 EcoSpace. Thanks to funding from the William Casper Graustein memorial fund we commissioned local artist Zulynette to create the mural entitled “Divine Wings, Divine You.”