Building fund
Kraków is a prominent Roman Catholic city filled with church buildings that showcase and communicate different historical periods.
So it is sometimes difficult to explain to locals and those lured by the obvious architectural attractions why our Sunday worship services have taken place in rented offices, Jewish temples, and a Ukrainian Help Centre that used to be a restaurant.
When people ask, “Where is your church?” they’re actually saying, “Point me to a steeple.”
Worship space at Smolki
For the past few years, our church has rented a storefront on Smolki Street to use as an office for staff, the publishing ministry, and for church events. Our landlord, who owns the whole building, has offered us an unbelievable deal on a large space upstairs in the same building.
After praying, seeking wise counsel, reviewing our budget, and reaching out to donors, we have secured the space, and renovations are officially underway.
This space not only offers us a stable and exclusive location for worship but also allows us to expand our ministry. We will now have the ability to worship on Sunday mornings (instead of evenings), start Sunday school, offer more privacy for pastoral meetings, build a formal children’s ministry, and keep our church at 1 address.
We praise the Lord for this provision for our church, but we are still praying and seeking financial partners for this building as well as continuing to save for a building purchase in the future.
Why do we need a building?
The ownership of a building would be a huge milestone for the Presbyterian Church in Poland, considering none of the present 4 congregations owns its own building.
By helping us secure our own building, you would bless not only those already part of the growing Presbyterian family, but also those who are drawn to the church’s teachings but culturally more inclined to feel at home in a literal house of God rather than meeting in a basement.
Consequently, it is also a lot easier for congregants to invite friends and family to attend worship services.
Our team is based in Kraków, Poland where we are involved in church planting and reaching out to young adults disillusioned with the Church or skeptical about it, through university student ministry, art ministry and apologetics ministry.
Kraków is the second-largest city in Poland, with a population of 800,000 but an Evangelical community of no more than 1,000.
A building provides both credibility and legitimacy; and, by God’s grace, property ownership will also ensure the settlement of our confessional roots as well as the continuity of our church’s mission in the city of Kraków.
This will enable the next generation to pick up the torch after we’re gone and shine the light that Christ has ignited so that those who seek Him will find both a spiritual and tangible home.
And it also sends a message to the community that we are here to stay.
