Two congregations in Järvenpää, Finland, jointly hosted a weekend seminar on Israel in God's plan in mid-October. The Free Church congregation Arkki and the Pentecostal congregation Saalem
A Free Church congregation in eastern Finland has marked 120 years of ministry with an anniversary service built around the conviction that a church should feel like home. Mikkeli Free
Suomen Viikkolehti has published an account of how the Finnish Free Church's teaching on baptism took shape, following a seminar at which questions about baptism were raised. The
For the Gädda family in Finland, the school day begins at the kitchen table. Mats and Jenny Gädda have taken responsibility for the education of their four children — Ester, 12,
Valtakunta — Finnish for “Kingdom” — brought young people aged 15 and over together for three days at the Valkea conference centre in Seinäjoki, with the main sessions held in the nearby
What does a congregation do when its premises no longer fit? Suomen Viikkolehti put the question to four Finnish Free Church congregations and found four different answers. Seinäjoki has built
A youth worker from Seinäjoki Free Church in Finland spent part of May in South Africa, where he used floorball, rap and games to share the gospel with children in
The Finnish Free Church Cooperation (Frikyrklig Samverkan, FS) has chosen evangelism among Arabic-speaking people in Finland as the destination of its 2026 mission collection. The decision puts the collection
A Finnish couple who prayed in their forties to be released from business life have poured the proceeds of selling their company into restarting a Free Church congregation that had
Floods and landslides that struck Nepal in late August have left many people without homes or a means of living, and the country’s small Christian community has been hit
Taisto Valta, a Finnish missionary doctor who later trained as a Free Church pastor and whose medical service carried him from a tuberculosis hospital in western India to Nepal, Iraq,
The Mission Church of Finland (Missionskyrkan i Finland) has announced that it is entering a deliberate new phase of church planting, with its national board judging that three to four
A thanksgiving and praise celebration at Baptist Village near Tel Aviv on 24 September marked twenty years since Netivah, a youth organisation working among Israeli children and young people, was
A Free Church congregation in Tampere has released its own lead pastor from his normal duties for the rest of the year so that he can travel among the missionaries
A Finnish free church women's mission association has taken on a new missionary after a pause of several years, and introduced her to the wider movement at its
Seventy-seven young people from Finland's Free Church congregations gave up their summer holidays this year to join short-term mission teams organised by The Legacy Project, the
The leader of the Finnish Free Church (Suomen Vapaakirkko), Tommi Koivunen, has stated in the church's newspaper that antisemitism is a flagrant form of racism and is "
The Free Church congregation in Kitee, in eastern Finland, has a feature few congregations can claim: its own "mummola", the Finnish word for a grandmother's home.