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Ashish Chauhan’s founding of House of Presence Ministries in Hempstead, New York reflects a framework he developed across diplomatic service, urban pastoral work, and graduate training in project management: that the disciplines of shepherding people and leading organizations aren’t in tension, they’re the same work approached from different angles. His model treats sustainable community building as a design problem—one requiring decentralized governance, structured outreach, and a deliberate move away from attendance metrics toward the harder-to-measure question of whether lives are actually being changed.