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
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
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
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,
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.
What is the identity of the Finnish Free Church, and what kind of church does each of its members want to help build? Those questions framed a lecture by Tommi
A joint Christian prison ministry afternoon will be held in Hämeenlinna, Finland, in October, bringing together speakers whose lives have been turned around by faith amid crime, addiction, and deep
The Finnish Free Church's annual workers' gathering, Työntekijäpäivät (Workers' Days), opened on Tuesday 22 September at Kiponniemi, the denomination's conference centre. The event drew
Jonathan Kyffin, a youth worker at the Free Church in Pori on Finland's west coast, reached Finnish free-church ministry by an unusual route — one that began in