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About Kairos Church

A church plant with the gospel at heart.

Kairos Church is a gospel-centered church plant in Southwest Florida committed to declaring and displaying the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Who We Are

A gospel-centered church for this generation and this time.

Kairos Church is a young church plant serving Sarasota and Southwest Florida. We are a community of believers committed to faithful worship, biblical preaching, intentional discipleship, prayerful dependence, and loving community.

We believe the church is more than a Sunday service. It is a spiritual family redeemed by Jesus, shaped by Scripture, filled by the Spirit, and sent into the world as witnesses of the gospel.

Many in our church come from Slavic backgrounds, but Kairos exists for our city and for all who want to know and follow Jesus. Whether you are new to faith, returning to church, or simply longing for honest Christian community, there is room for you here.

The Meaning of Kairos

An appointed moment in time.

Kairos is a Greek word that points to a strategic, appointed, God-ordained moment. The name reflects our conviction that God works intentionally in history, the gospel changes lives in real time, and every moment is an opportunity to encounter Jesus, follow Him, and display His grace.

Mission

We exist to declare and display the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Kairos Church SRQ exists to declare and display the gospel of Jesus Christ by preaching the Word faithfully, worshiping God joyfully, making disciples intentionally, building gospel-shaped community, and living on mission in our city and beyond.

Our Story

Planted for gospel depth and local mission.

The story of Kairos is not mainly about a building, brand, or program. It is about the Lord forming a people who love Christ, welcome others, and want to see the gospel take root in Sarasota.

Igor and Tanya Khudyy

Igor & Tanya Khudyy

Lead Pastor and ministry partners.

Igor was born and raised in Ukraine and later moved to the United States, where God shaped his life through both challenges and blessings. Igor and Tanya moved from Washington to Florida about four years ago, and they are raising four children: two boys and two girls.

Tanya is Igor's closest friend, strongest supporter, and a vital part of the hospitality and warmth that mark their home. Together they desire to honor Christ, welcome people honestly, and help build a church family where the gospel is both declared and displayed.

01

A Burden for the Gospel

One of the passages that deeply shaped the call to plant Kairos was Paul's conviction that he had been entrusted with the gospel and therefore spoke to please God, not man (1 Thessalonians 2:4). That burden gave Igor courage to preach, confidence to give himself to gospel work, and a growing desire to share Christ with the people God was placing in his path in Sarasota.

02

A Family Sent to Sarasota

Igor and Tanya moved from Washington to Florida with their four children and a group of friends to help plant a Russian-speaking church. As they prayed, served, and listened, the Lord made it clear that Kairos should become an English-speaking church plant seeking to reach Sarasota with the gospel of Jesus Christ.

03

A Church Plant Taking Root

Kairos was not simply one person's idea, ambition, or dream. It began as several families gathered with a shared longing for spiritual family, a need to grow together in God's Word, a desire to do kingdom work together, and a burden to unite our homes, children, and efforts around gospel mission in our area.

04

A Mission for This City

Kairos first began gathering on Venice Island, but from the beginning we prayed for God to plant us in the greater Sarasota area. We love this city, and we want to give our best to bring the hope of Jesus Christ to the people around us through worship, hospitality, discipleship, and faithful witness.

Our Values

Convictions thatshape our culture.

These values are not decorative words for a website. They are the convictions we want to practice as we preach, pray, disciple, welcome, serve, and live on mission together.

01

Scripture over preference

Ruled by God's Word

We believe God's Word, not culture, trends, or personal opinion, is our final authority. Scripture shapes our preaching, worship, discipleship, leadership, relationships, and decisions.

This means we want the Bible to correct us, comfort us, guide us, and form our imagination. We do not want to build a church around personality, preference, pressure, or trend. We want every ministry, conversation, and decision to be tested by the Word of God and brought under the lordship of Christ.

02

Jesus over religion

Gospel at the Center

The gospel is not merely the beginning of Christianity. It is the foundation, fuel, and focus of everything we do.

We want people to rest in grace, treasure Christ, and be changed by Him. The gospel humbles our pride, heals our shame, creates a new family, and sends us into the world as witnesses. We preach Christ because only Christ can save, satisfy, and transform.

03

Known and loved

Authentic Community

The church is not a weekly event but a spiritual family. We want to be a community where people are known, loved, discipled, encouraged, and cared for.

Authentic community means we make room for real stories, real burdens, honest confession, forgiveness, hospitality, meals, prayer, correction, laughter, and long obedience together. We want people to move from simply attending to truly belonging.

04

Followers formed together

Intentional Discipleship

We do not simply gather crowds. We seek to make disciples who follow Jesus, are transformed by Jesus, and live on mission with Jesus.

Discipleship at Kairos happens through preaching, groups, one-on-one relationships, serving, prayer, youth formation, family partnership, and everyday obedience. We want every believer to grow in maturity and help someone else grow in Christ.

05

Built by God

Prayerful Dependence

We do not build the church by human strength. We depend on God through prayer, asking Him to save, sanctify, provide, heal, send, and lead.

Prayer reminds us that the church belongs to Jesus. We want prayer to shape our Sundays, homes, leaders, ministries, outreach, decisions, and hidden life with God. A prayerless church may look busy, but a praying church learns to wait on the Lord.

06

Sent in everyday life

Missional Living

Every Christian is sent by God. We want to declare and display the gospel through hospitality, evangelism, mercy, generosity, and faithful witness.

Mission is not only an event on the calendar. It is the way followers of Jesus live in homes, schools, workplaces, neighborhoods, restaurants, parks, and ordinary conversations. We want our city to see and hear the good news of Jesus through His people.

07

Humility over status

Servant Leadership

We want humble, biblical, accountable leaders who shepherd people, equip the saints, protect the church, and raise up others to serve.

Leadership at Kairos is meant to look like Jesus: humble, sacrificial, courageous, relational, and faithful. Leaders do not exist to gather attention to themselves. They exist to help the church grow in Christ and use every gift God has given to the body.

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God's way, God's timing

Faithfulness Over Performance

Success is doing what God has asked us to do, in God's way, and in God's timing.

We care about fruit, but we do not want to measure health only by attendance, budgets, visibility, or momentum. We value faithfulness, depth, obedience, integrity, perseverance, and love. We would rather be deeply rooted than merely impressive.

Our Philosophy of Life

Acts 2 gives us a picture of church life.

Acts 2:42-47 is not a sentimental snapshot of church life. It is a Spirit-given picture of a people devoted to the Word, fellowship, prayer, generosity, worship, and witness. These five convictions describe the kind of church we are praying to become.

Philosophy of Ministry
01

Guard Thoughtfully

A thriving church guards its unity by staying rooted in the gospel.

Kairos does not build unity on preference, personality, politics, culture, or shared background. We guard the gospel as the center of our life together because Jesus is the one who brings divided people near by His blood. That means we hold doctrine with conviction, give freedom in secondary matters, forgive quickly, and refuse to let lesser things tear apart what Christ has joined together.

Acts 2:42; Ephesians 2:11-22; Romans 14:1; Colossians 3:13-14

02

Grow Spiritually

A thriving church grows in the gospel, in God, and in godliness.

Spiritual growth begins with spiritual life. We do not grow into Christianity; we are made alive by the Spirit and then learn to grow deeper into the gospel. At Kairos, we want people to know what Christ has done, walk with God in real relationship, and bear visible fruit in love, joy, holiness, repentance, patience, and faithfulness.

Acts 2:41-43; John 15:1-8; Ephesians 2:1-10; Galatians 5:22-23

03

Gather Faithfully

A thriving church shows up, engages deeply, and builds one another up.

The church is not a religious event to watch from a distance. We are a gathered people called to show up, be present, receive the Word, pray together, break bread, and carry one another's burdens. Faithful gathering creates real awareness: we learn who is weary, who needs prayer, who needs encouragement, and how each member can build up the body.

Acts 2:42-47; Hebrews 10:24-25; 1 Corinthians 12:26; 1 Peter 4:10

04

Give Generously

A thriving church overflows in joyful, sacrificial, willing, worshipful generosity.

Generosity is not first the product of abundance; it is the fruit of grace and trust. Because Christ has given Himself for us, we give with glad hearts, open hands, and worshipful dependence on God. We want generosity to be free from pressure and manipulation, shaped instead by gratitude, sacrifice, willingness, worship, and steady faithfulness.

Acts 2:44-46; 2 Corinthians 8:1-9; 2 Corinthians 9:7; 1 Corinthians 16:1-2

05

Go Missionally

A thriving church does not only grow inward; it goes outward with the gospel.

Mission is not a department at Kairos; it is part of our identity. Jesus sends His people as witnesses across the street, into workplaces, schools, families, neighborhoods, cultures, and nations. We want to make disciples, baptize them, teach them to obey Christ, and live as a visible witness to the hope of Jesus in Sarasota and beyond.

Acts 1:8; Acts 2:47; Matthew 28:18-20; Matthew 5:14-16

Meet Our Team

One bodymany members.

Kairos is served by pastors, elders, ministry leaders, and volunteers who help the whole body worship Jesus, grow in God's Word, care for one another, and live on mission. This team is not displayed in order of importance. Every faithful role matters because every part of the body helps build up the church in love.

Serve With Us

Find your place in the body.

Kairos is still being built by ordinary people serving with faithfulness, joy, and love for Christ. There is room to welcome, lead, teach, create, care, or serve behind the scenes.