Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Mission

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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]