Monday, October 16, 2006

Polish community

Just a thought - the corner shops of Islington all have little signs (Polski Produkti!) for the benefit of the not inconsiderable Polish community, so how about the corner church? We have quite a cross cultural opportunity there. Migrant workers from Eastern Europe are a misunderstood social phenomenon, and aren't particularly welcome, so that ought to be a chance for us to be different as Christians. If we open our doors, and if we found even one Polish Christian, who knows who we might find, and what we might learn? We could have a housegroup in Polish before you know it.

I'm not aware of any Polish speakers in the church, but there is a Polish church in Angel who could help. I'm also in daily contact with our product developers at the Polish branch at work, so we could get a welcome notice translated.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

the culture crossing team had an idea ages ago about getting a survey done on languages in our area, and setting up a database of people who spoke different languages, and also putting up some (cheesy) welcome signs in various languages.

like all potentially good ideas, it never got off the ground....

Anonymous said...

I've just seen this...

If we'd had the database, we'd have known that we DO have a polish speaker, who spent a year living in Poland! (No, not me!) I can put you in touch if you still want to do this...