Established as a mission parish as late as 2018 we are still a very young community. For the time being we are renting a place and have to put up and take down for our services every weekend. A building fund was established in December 2019.
Glory to God! We have been able to buy a building for our parish! We are incredibly grateful to everyone who has helped us reach this goal! We would not have made this without you!
We moved into our new building on Sunday December 15th which is the feast of St Tryphon (new calendar), apostle to Norway. We are looking very much forward to make use of it. This is a multipurpose building which also houses a Student Dorm as well as offices. We are accepting students for our dorm from all over the world. Read more about the dorm here. At the moment we have to rent the offices out in order to be able to pay our mortgage. But in the future we hope to use this space for outreach. Please read more about our project here. Any help towards our building fund will help us pay down our mortgage so that we can start using the space for parish ministry. Transaction and wiring information follows below as well as PayPal information:
For lager donations please contact us and/or use bank information below. Paypal charges a service fee based on the total amount of the gift.
Bank Information US: Exchange Bank St Seraphim Orthodox Cathedral Account : 7560618610 Routing: 121101985 IMPORTANT! label the transaction: "Norway - building fund" This is the parish account of St Seraphim Orthodox Cathedral in Santa Rosa CA. Please notify the parish about your gift at info@saintseraphim.com and mcthong8@gmail.com to ensure that the gift will reach us. Bank Information Europe: Sparebanken Sør Postboks 200 4662 Kristiansand Norway Account name: "BEDRIFTSKONTO NIBOR 1M KNIF" Account owner: "HELLIGE JOMFRU MARIAS BEBUDELSE ORTODOKS" Bank account: 3000.65.66274 SWIFT code for Sparebanken Sør: "SPSONO22" IBAN: NO4530006566274 Since this is an international bank account overseas you may want to consult your tax attorney regarding tax deductibility.
May God bless every giver! With the blessing of God we might have our own church and property.
The drawing at the very top is of Gol Stave Church.