Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Mission

Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Mission
Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Mission
Suomen Lähetysseura
AbbreviationFELM
PredecessorFinska Missionssällskapet (The Finnish Missionary Society)
Formation1859
TypeMissionary Society
Parent organization
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland
AffiliationsLutheranism
Websitehttps://felm.org

The Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Mission (FELM, formerly The Finnish Missionary Society; Finnish: Suomen Lähetysseura ry; Swedish: Finska Missionssällskapet rf) is a Lutheran missionary society formed on January 19, 1859, in Helsinki, Finland. It is one of seven organisations of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland (ELCF) that conduct missionary work.[1] Its first deployments outside Finland were made to Ovamboland, an area that today is cut by the Angola-Namibian border.[2]

  1. ^ "Mission organizations". The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland. Archived from the original on 13 February 2013. Retrieved 19 September 2012.
  2. ^ Kontro, Ari (1979). "The Finnish mission society's "political image" of Africa". Scandinavian Journal of History. 4 (1–4): 35–45. doi:10.1080/03468757908578947.