VIETNAM Pr. Kimmo Sarajärvi, our new CEO, shares We were expecting pastors and evangelists to the training week in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), but a group of about 40 people, mostly young evangelists, were waiting there. Many of them seemed to be still searching for their calling. Thus, it was a suitable place where […]
In the August Newsletter, I shared how the Lord had spoken to me in 1984 about Southeast Asia. This is why GNN has had long-term plans focusing on the unreached people groups there. The calling has awaited its time and it does not progress with human strength! Now, it is time! The only way To […]
Next September I’ll fly to Singapore with Kimmo. There we will join Pr. Shierley Siwi, our Asia coordinator, and Dr. Paul Ng, our Mission Advisor from Singapore. Dr. Paul has organized a seminar to Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam. During that week, 50 representatives from the local partner’s 240 churches will participate. The following weekend, we […]
Southeast Asia (10 ASEAN countries) has over 700 million people residents. The numbers cover 1,748 ethnic groups, 665 of them still unreached (44% of the population). In 1984, I was searching for direction for my life. I fasted and prayed for 10 days. At the end, Southeast Asia appeared before my soul’s eyes, shrouded in […]
GNN has supported a fruitful radio ministry in Uganda for a decade. Our partner, Bp. John Magaba, radio broadcasts three times a week to an area of 30 million inhabitants even reaching four bordering countries. Towards the end of the broadcast, calls overflow the studio. Since the pandemic, about 25 of them have made changing […]
Last Spring, after having heard of Pastor Jonathan’s migration back to Australia, many worried where we would find a suitable person to continue the work. I told my wife Orvokki, If this work is from God, He too is powerful in appointing the work to a suitable person. On Sunday, 4th of June, we held […]
That they would hear! The gospel must be preached to all nations – gather a great multitude that no one could read, from all tribes and kindreds and nations and languages. These thoughts have been imprinted on my heart over the course of 51⁄2 years where I served in GNN Finland missions and at home. […]
A year ago came a Filipino couple, Pastor Edsel and Barbara Klit, to VICF church in Vantaa. I had met them a decade earlier when they came to visit their married daughter. Surprisingly in Spring 2022, they moved to Finland. They also came to VICF church. Before coming here, they had worked for 17 years […]
Pastor Jonathan returns to Australia Jonathan Lemmetti, from Australia, became my colleague five and a half years ago. Energetic and helpful, he joined me in GNN missions and was working part- time as an assistant pastor in Vantaa’s VICF church. He has been a well-liked person both in his home country and in the target […]
The theme of my seminar, ”How to start missions in a church?”, dates back to three decades in Indonesia. During that time, at the request of GPdI’s leadership of the church, I had carefully prepared a practical strategy on how to start missions from Indonesia. (Strategy means learning how to win a war. Of course, […]