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]

History

The FMS was organized by K. J. G. Sirelius, who first worked as the society's secretary and during 1864–1872 as its first mission director. The FMS mission school was also founded during his term.[3][4]

The first missionaries from this society graduated in 1868 and were deployed to the Ovambo area in southern Africa that was later separated by colonial borders into southern Angola and northern South West Africa, today Namibia,[5] in 1870.[6] There they established the mission station at Omandongo, today in the Onayena Constituency of Oshikoto Region. The mission station was proclaimed a national monument in 2014.[7]

At the request of the Rhenish Missionary Society, but also due to a contempt of the politics and ideas of the German missionaries,[5] their activities started with the Ondonga tribe of the Ovambo people. They later spread to all of Ovamboland, southern parts of Angola, and to the area that today is the Kavango Region. The first Ovambo pastors were ordained in 1925.[6]

By 1960, the society had deployed over 100 people in Ovamboland alone. Following political unrest in the Namibian struggle for independence, in the 1980s there were only 14 Finns left. After independence, Finland became one of the major supporters of development in Namibia. The Finnish Missionary Society ceded their missionary work and instead started to promote "friendship between the independent churches".[6]

Missionary Rautanen (front center) in Olukonda, 1899

The best-known Finnish missionary in Namibia was Nakambale (Ndonga for 'the one who wears the hat'), a nickname given to Martti Rautanen.[8] From 1880, Rautanen worked in Olukonda at one of the first mission stations to the Ovambo people. He initiated the building of the first church in Ovamboland in 1889, and he translated the Bible into Oshindonga, a dialect of Oshivambo.[9]

With a consortium of other mission agencies, in 1966 the FELM was also involved in establishing the China Lutheran Seminary in Hsinchu City, Taiwan.[10]

See also

References

  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.
  3. ^ Kotivuori, Yrjö (2013-07-16). "Ylioppilasmatrikkeli 1640–1852: Klemens Johan Gabriel Sirelius". Ylioppilasmatrikkeli 1640–1852. Helsinki University. Retrieved 2015-03-23.
  4. ^ Peltola 1958, p. 91.
  5. ^ a b Kokkonen, Pellervo (1993). "Religious and Colonial Realities: Cartography of the Finnish Mission in Ovamboland, Namibia". History in Africa. 20: 155–171. doi:10.2307/3171970. ISSN 0361-5413. JSTOR 3171970.
  6. ^ a b c "Missionary Work". vantaa.fi. Archived from the original on 23 January 2014. Retrieved 17 September 2012.
  7. ^ Tjihenuna, Theresia (2 September 2014). "Three new heritage sites proclaimed". The Namibian. Archived from the original on 12 September 2014. Retrieved 12 September 2014.
  8. ^ Immonen, Karita (12 April 2006). "Nakambale – Trip to the Past". News. Embassy of Finland in Windhoek.
  9. ^ "Olukonda National Monument". Namibweb.com. Retrieved 17 September 2012.
  10. ^ "Historical Sketch of CLS". China Lutheran Seminary.

Sources

  • Peltola, Matti (1958). Sata vuotta suomalaista lähetystyötä 1859–1959. II: Suomen Lähetysseuran Afrikan työn historia. Helsinki: Agricola-seura.

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