July Issue

Custom automated gate system provides much-needed security for

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Gerald Martinez, lead pastor of Joshua’s Vineyard Mission Outpost, was determined to live with and among the people served by his church, even if it meant he and his family made their home in a rundown duplex in a bad part of town.
And often his duplex felt more like a community center as the needy treated it more as a refuge than the Martinez home.
The family’s situation attracted the attention of ABC’s “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition,” the traveling TV show that utilizes legions of donors and volunteers to tear down dilapidated homes belonging to families in need and build custom homes in place of the old ones.