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Versailles
- St Mark's ( Also serves Chevry
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Contact details:
http://www.stmarksversailles.org
Will you help us equip this important church
for its future ministry?
A major church extension at St. Marks Versailles, to create
an enlarged church and venue for community and inter-church events.
Estimate €1.0 m to €1.2 m (including fees).
St. Marks
current building was constructed in two phases, in 1993 and 1998,
(replacing a c.19 church) with a view to a third and final phase
which would incorporate a 250-seat worship area, better facilities
for childrens and youth ministry, enlarged kitchen facilities
and on-site parking. The church now wishes to proceed with this
final phase, and the architects are now in discussion with the planning
department; works will also be subject to competitive tendering.
The congregation has to date given or pledged over €240,000
and is engaging in an active campaign of fundraising from local
sources, companies and trusts but cannot apply to some UK trusts
as it is non-resident. ICS has also raised over €47,000. The
completed building will create a modern, well-equipped church and
a day conference facility to serve the local and wider English-speaking
communities (some estimate the latter to number 500,000) in the
greater Paris region and other English-and French-speaking churches
who will be able to use it for joint events. St. Marks will
also be expanding its repertoire of Christian educational and training
courses. The project will particularly improve facilities for the
seventy-five pupil English-language school which aims specifically
to improve the grammar, writing and spelling of children learning
English. It will also create a building better suited to outreach
into the locality through e.g. its availability for community events,
St. Marks already having an active ministry to the homeless.
Funds still needed are estimated to be €750,000/£662,550.
For more information see http://www.stmarksversailles.org/6BuildingNews.html
Your gift would be a great encouragement: just send in your donation
made out to 'Intercontinental Church Society'
and in a covering note express the wish that ICS uses your gift
towards the building project at this church, or call us with your
credit or debit card to hand. You can also donate online
- just select 'Versailles - St Mark's - building project' from the
drop down menu - but transaction
fees will be deducted from your gift so it is usually more cost-efficient
to call us to make a credit card donation. Please also consider
making an additional gift to ICS's general fund for the benefit
of our wider work
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