Co-Founders of Ministry Architecture, Inc. (501c3)
Len and Mary Jo Rosenberg
mary jo rosenberg
Ephesians 2:8-10,
“For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of work, so that no one may boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we should walk in them.”
Professional History
Mary Jo is the Co-Founder and Director of Operations. She has taught the Bible and Biblical Marriage in Burundi, Thailand, Uganda, and Zimbabwe, and has developed Bible studies for women’s’ groups in many developing countries. She has developed company policies, procedures, and goals, planned large group ministry events, led training of interns.
Her prior career includes having been a missionary staff member with ISI (International Students, Inc) for 17 years, organized discussion groups on cross-cultural issues, led many events and field trips, taught friendship evangelism to volunteers, and matched international students with church families.
For many years Mary Jo was also a high school English Teacher, Substitute Teacher and Tutor, and was a Business Teacher at the Rochester Business Institute---always caring for her students.
Education
She has a BA degree from Hobart & William Smith College, Geneva, NY and post-graduate credits from Syracuse University.
Community Service
Neighborhood Watch Captain, Chateau Ridge Estates, Lakewood, CO
Foreign Travel
In missionary service Mary Jo has traveled in North, Central, and South America, Eastern Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.
leonard c. rosenberg, architect, ncarb
Titus 3:4, 5,
“When the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, He saved Me, not because of righteous things I had done, but because of His mercy…”
Professional History
Len is the Co-Founder and Executive Director. He has preached and taught the Bible around the world and often in closed countries.
As leader of Ministry Architecture, he has served pastors, missionaries, and ministries to the needy in developing countries. He has planned communities, medical and educational campuses, and designed individual buildings that are modern, functional, and integrated into the local community and culture.
Len had a 40-year career in the US as a senior architect in corporate, commercial, educational, and industrial architecture; he designed many custom and modern homes, and served prominent clients including Xerox, Kodak, IBM, Hewlett Packard, and others. At the same time he also had a parallel career, serving as a missionary volunteer with ISI (International Students, Inc), teaching the Bible to international students for 17 years, and frequently teaching sixth grade Sunday school in church and VBS (summer vacation bible schools).
Education
He was licensed as a professional architect in New York in 1974. He has a BS degree from Empire College, State University of New York, with a major in Community Environmental Planning, 1973. Len discovered his ambition and ability to be an architect while in Stuyvesant High School, attended the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation-Taliesin, and was an apprentice of John Lloyd Wright (one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s architect sons); this was an indelible four-year experience which set his architectural course in creative design and construction knowledge. His campus planning and building architecture is based on understanding of the site, the client, and environment.
Community Service
Chairman, Urban Planning Commission, Fairport NY
Vacation Bible School Teacher
HOA president
Guest lecturer in architecture
President and Program Chairman, AFE (Association for Facilities Engineering)
Foreign Travel
In missionary service Len has traveled in North, Central, and South America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.