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Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Mission
Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Mission
Suomen Lähetysseura
Lähetystalo at the Tähtitorninkatu street in Ullanlinna, Helsinki, Finland
Abbreviation
FELM
Predecessor
Finska Missionssällskapet (The Finnish Missionary Society)
Formation
1859
Type
Missionary Society
Parent organization
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland
Affiliations
Lutheranism
Website
https://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]
^"Mission organizations". The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland. Archived from the original on 13 February 2013. Retrieved 19 September 2012.
^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.
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