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Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Mission | |
Suomen Lähetysseura | |
![]() Lähetystalo at the Tähtitorninkatu street in Ullanlinna, Helsinki, Finland | |
Abbreviation | FELM |
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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]