A platform tailored to the life of a church
Everything Kikaron offers, plus a package designed for parishes, congregations, and Bible-study groups — Catholic, Protestant, Anglican and Orthodox.
Every standard Kikaron app, included
You also get the full standard suite: Library for the shared library and team spaces, Contacts for members and staff, Meetings for video calls, and the rest.
Your tradition, ticked
A hub says which traditions it keeps — Catholic, Protestant, Anglican, Orthodox, or several at once. That one choice decides which feasts appear, how the Sunday is named, and whether the Paschal cycle follows the Julian reckoning.
Hosted in Europe, governed by EU privacy law
The same European hosting and member-data protection that applies to every Kikaron environment — your community's data stays in Europe, on EU-governed infrastructure.
A calendar that keeps the church year
Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Holy Week, Easter, Ascension, Pentecost — and the feasts your own tradition keeps, from Corpus Christi to Reformation Day — are already on the calendar, drawn in their liturgical colour beside your own services and meetings. A hub that ticks Orthodox gets Pascha and Holy Week on the Julian computus, on the civil dates they actually fall.
Click any feast and members land on a pre-populated page — a short explanation of the day, the dates it falls on for each tradition, and the passages that belong to it, opening straight into the Chokhmah library. Every feast carries an illustration drawn from the public-domain collections of the great museums.
The Church-year widget
A glance at where the community stands in the church year: today on the civil and the Julian calendar, the coming Sunday's Gospel from the Revised Common Lectionary with the year letter, that Sunday under the name each tradition gives it — Ordinary Time 25, Pentecost 17, Trinity 16 — and a countdown to the next feasts. The Gospel reference is a link: one click opens the chapter itself.
The Chokhmah library
The whole Bible, in the languages it has been read in. The World English Bible for the Old and New Testaments, with the Greek of the SBL Greek New Testament beside it; the Deuterocanon; the Latin Vulgate with the Douay-Rheims; and, for the Orthodox churches, the Septuagint with Brenton, the Peshitta with Murdock, and the Church Slavonic Bible with the Russian Synodal translation.
Every chapter reads with the original beside the translation, verse by verse. Search the whole corpus for a phrase, favourite the verses you keep coming back to, and cite passages straight into your team-space documents and the parish newsletter.
Where the sermon gets written
Every member also gets a free Kikaron One account — a personal cloud of their own, with the Notes app in it. Notes is where the long things get written: a sermon, a Bible-study handout, an essay for the parish paper, a whole book if it comes to that.
Because the community carries the package, the library comes with them. Search Chokhmah, favourite the verses you keep returning to, and drop a passage straight into the text you are writing.
What lands in the text is a live fragment — the Greek or the Latin beside the translation, with the way back to the source still attached — not a quotation that has been pasted out of its context and cannot find its way home.
Writing happens in your own space, where an unfinished thought is nobody else's business. When the piece is done, send it from your personal drive to the hub's Library — or to the Newsletter — and the whole parish can read it.
A parish Newsletter — with a free public site
Notices, appeals, reflections, news from the groups that meet midweek — gathered into a self-laying-out newspaper that needs no one to design it.
Articles marked Public also appear on a free public Newsletter site at the parish's own URL — for what you want the whole neighbourhood to read.
A mailbox for the parish, and one for every team
The community gets an address of its own — st-martins@kikaron.com — and every team space mints one the moment it is created: parish-council@, fabric-committee@, food-bank@. Mail sent there lands in front of everyone on that team instead of in one person's inbox, where it waits for them to come back from holiday.
That is also what makes a handover bearable. Add someone to the team and its mailbox opens for them; take them off and it closes. Nobody forwards a password, and nothing has to be remembered on the day a churchwarden steps down.
One room for the whole parish, and one per team
Every member is in the General room from the day they join, whether or not they sit on anything. Every team space brings its own room with it, with the same membership — no invitation lists to keep in step, and end-to-end encrypted like the rest.
And in your own free Kikaron One account you can connect WhatsApp and Signal, so the groups the parish already lives in arrive in the same app, beside the church's own rooms — one place to look instead of four.