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FFFM


What is The Pentecostal Foreign Mission?

Already in 1910 - only three years after the arrival of the Pentecostal movement to Norway - the first missionaries were on their way to India. Today PYM has 280 missionaries whose work is based in 30 countries. It is the third largest of its kind in Norway. The work carried out by the missionaries is administered through The Pentecostal Foreign Mission of Norway (PYM), but the local churches are responsible for the missionaries' inauguration and dispatch. The local churches provide the financial, moral and spiritual support to each missionary.
Annual Conferences
There are annual conferences for each continent, where the missionaries and churches assemble and share viewpoints and experiences. Similar conferences are also held on the mission field on each continent. There is one committee for each continent and all the directors come together and form the board of directors for The Pentecostal Foreign Mission of Norway. These committees represent the churches in Norway. Their task is to preserve the churches interests. The Pentecostal Foreign Mission of Norway has a secretariat in Oslo which is lead by a General Secretary. This office administers at the same time funds from NORAD (Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation). The common tasks in the mission are: The Mission's Fund, PYM's Children Aid, PYM's Literature Fund, PYM-Aid. The mission runs schools, child-centers, media-work, bible schools, bible spreading and deacon work. The mission has an evangelical and social profile.
What is Finnish Free Foreign Mission?

Finnish Free Foreign Mission is the Pentecostal Mission of Finland operating and coordinating all mission activities emanating from the Finnish Pentecostal churches.
The start og FFFM
Finnish Free Foreign Mission was founded 1927. It is Mission and Development Aid Organization of Finnish Pentecostal churches. We have 432 missionaries in 42 countries. 50 of 432 missionaries are workin in special missions around the world. FFFM is the biggest mission organization in Finland. Churches "hires" missionaries as their own workers, FFFM is a co-coordinating organization.
The kind of work
LKA is development- and humanitarian aid department of FFFM. It was founded in 1974. It is the second biggest development and humanitarian aid organization which has support from the government. Today, LKA has 35 development and humanitarian aid projects going on in 20 different countries and also 10 long-term projects. LKA has 60 workers in different countries (they are included in the total amount of FFFM missionaries).
The main office of FFFM is in Vantaa, Finland. There are over 20 workers in the office. FFFM publishes also a magazine, Maailman Ääret, and it's also done in the main office.

FFFM in Uganda
In Uganda the FFFM has been working in different fields. In the very beginning of its work in PCU, FFFM and LKA undertook to rehabilitate Mpigi Health Centre in Mpigi District, some kilometers from Kampala. This project is now completed. Later, FFFM has been involved in health projects, especially on the side of AIDS. Several missionaries have come to Uganda to this particular work and many have been helped. Hundreds of orphans are also assisted by FFFM and LKA.

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