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- Finnish_Missionary_Society abstract "The Finnish Missionary Society (Finnish: Suomen lähetysseura) is a Lutheran missionary society formed on January 19, 1859 in Helsinki, Finland. After a name change, it is today known as the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Mission, FELM. It is one of seven organisations of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland (ELCF) that conduct missionary work. Its first deployments outside Finland were made to Ovamboland, an area that today is cut by the Angola-Namibian border.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, in 1870.At the request of the Rhenish Missionary Society, but also due to a contempt of the politics and ideas of the German missionaries, 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.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".The best-known Finnish missionary in Namibia was Nakambale (Oshivambo: the one who wears the hat), a nickname given to Martti Rautanen. 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.".
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- Finnish_Missionary_Society subject Category:1859_establishments_in_Finland.
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- Finnish_Missionary_Society subject Category:Christian_missionaries_in_Africa.
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- Finnish_Missionary_Society subject Category:History_of_Namibia.
- Finnish_Missionary_Society subject Category:Lutheranism.
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- Finnish_Missionary_Society comment "The Finnish Missionary Society (Finnish: Suomen lähetysseura) is a Lutheran missionary society formed on January 19, 1859 in Helsinki, Finland. After a name change, it is today known as the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Mission, FELM. It is one of seven organisations of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland (ELCF) that conduct missionary work.".
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