St Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church Building Fund
Our new temple is scheduled to be complete in Winter, 2008!
"The ... founders, benefactors, and the brotherhood of this holy temple ... may the Lord God remember in His kingdom, always, now and ever, and unto the ages of ages."
From the Divine Liturgy
Would you like to be the benefactor of an Orthodox temple?
Every additional $130 in our building fund pays for a sq. ft. of our 1900 sq. ft. temple & hall which we plan to worship in by Winter, 2008. Building is starting in October, 2008.
You may also send funds to "St Nicholas Orthodox Church', with memo "Building Fund" to St Nicholas Orthodox Church Treasurer, Reader Nicholas Park, Box 37, McKinney TX 75070
We are an active Russian Orthodox Christian community. Our Sunday services are in English with many hymns repeated in Slavonic. We have outreaches to the community in the form of prison ministry, nursing home visitations, and a very full liturgical and teaching schedule. We are the only church in the Metroplex which follows the same calendar used in Russia and regularly includes Slavonic and English in our services and homilies. We have purchased land in McKinney Texas, and are building a 1900 sq. ft. chapel with small hall, to be completed in Winter, 2008.
We have a two phase building plan.
We plan to build our chapel, with a small hall affixed, for services in Winter, 2008. Building is starting October, 2008. The chapel will look like a "real church", with high ceilings, and two or three cupolas, and it will be our worshipping home as we grow and get ready for phase two. It will be built with later expansion to a full, canonical temple in mind. We will later build a church hall, or possibly purchase a house abutting the land, and convert into a church hall. After the new hall is ready, we plan to enlarge the chapel, and use the entire building as a temple. The final design will be in a cross configuration, and be very roomy, with very high ceilings. The chapel will cost about $221,000 to build (about $130 per sq. ft., with a 120,000 loan at 7%, paid off in ten years). We are seeking benefactors to "donate a sq. ft.", or a part thereof.
View of our new temple and hall from the North
708 S. Chestnut McKinney, Texas 75071
We have set up an account to receive tax-free donations. We will be happy to send you a receipt, and to pray for you and your family as benefactors if you desire. You may also send checks, made out to "St Nicholas Orthodox Church Building Fund", to our treasurer, Reader Nicholas Park, Box 37, McKinney TX 75070. Email Fr Seraphim, with a list of your immediate family members, so we can begin commemorating you in the Divine Liturgy.
McKinney Texas is the fastest growing city in Texas, with a current population of over 100,000. City projections are a population of over 300,000 by 2020. We will be the only Orthodox Church in McKinney; the closest sister church, in Plano, will be about 20 minutes away by car (on a good day!).