Church ministry

Fida works in Malawi to equip local churches for youth ministry. Football clubs and training sessions reach young people in Malawi and neighbouring Mozambique. 

Fida’s partner in Malawi is the interdenominational “Souls For Jesus Ministries International” (SOJEMI), founded in 1992, which includes a total of 18 different denominations. Fida’s missionaries serve as trainers within the SOJEMI network.

SOJEMI works closely with local churches across 68 locations in Malawi. It organises outreach events, such as football clubs, and provides teaching for new Christians. SOJEMI also offers training for church leaders.

Tanzania is a long-standing partner country of the Finnish Pentecostal movement. Fida develops children’s and youth ministry as well as Bible and mission training for the Free Pentecostal Churches of Tanzania. 

About 70% of Tanzania’s population is under the age of 20, and churches have a significant need for diverse children’s and youth ministries. FPCT has asked Fida for support, particularly in developing the children’s and youth ministries in growing urban congregations. Fida’s workers are helping to build the structure of FPCT’s children’s and youth ministries and organising children’s events in collaboration with local churches.

Fida also supports the training of Tanzanian church workers by sending Sunday school teachers to Bible schools, specialising in children’s and youth ministry.

Fida helps FPCT organise Kairos training programmes, aimed at inspiring local churches to engage in mission work. Additionally, Fida’s workers support local Bible schools.

Fida has been operating in Uganda since 1987 together with the Pentecostal Churches of Uganda (PCU). Over the decades, Fida has supported the training of church staff and promoted the development of Bible teaching.  

Nowadays, Fida supports PCU especially in developing its growing children’s and youth ministry.

Fida has been working in Kenya for decades in partnership with the Full Gospel Churches of Kenya (FGCK), which was co-founded by Finnish missionaries in 1949. Over the years, Fida and Finnish Pentecostal churches have sent more than 170 workers to Kenya. 

Fida’s mission in Kenya aims to strengthen the Full Gospel Church to plant new churches for unreached people groups and to develop its growing children’s and youth ministry. 

Fida has been operating in Ethiopia for decades. Finnish missionary work has played a significant role in the growth of Pentecostal churches in Ethiopia. Today, Fida’s partner churches have more than 10 million members.

One of these partner churches in Guenet church.

Fida’s missionaries are developing Bible teaching within the Guenet Church and training pastors, evangelists, and missionaries.

The Guenet Church aims to establish new congregations in communities where there is no established Christian presence. The church also seeks to increasingly send its own missionaries to Ethiopia’s neighbouring countries, many of which have the lowest number of Christians in the world.

Fida trains these workers and provides financial support for their work.

The work of Finnish Pentecostal churches in Thailand began in 1946. Today, Fida focuses on developing the metropolitan work of the Full Gospel Pentecostal movement, planting new churches, and children and youth ministry. We concentrate on reaching out to language and people groups where there are very few Christians. 

In Japan, Fida supports the Pentecostal movement’s church work, especially in opening new branches. Our work and team is focused on the Kyoto area.

A media ministry has also been launched to help the Japanese churches reach out to the younger generation. 

The work of the Finnish Pentecostal churches in Papua New Guinea has a history of more than 55 years. Fida supports the ALC Pentecostal movement in their children’s ministry as well as missionary training. 

In Asia, about 60% of the population belongs to ethnic groups with very few Christians. In many Asian countries, Christians are a small minority, and their social position is often weak.

Our programme supports church work in eight Asian countries, reaching 12 ethnic groups with little to no Christian presence. The goal of the programme, in collaboration with Asian partner churches, is to reach these least-reached peoples with the Gospel and support the establishment of new churches in areas where Christians are few.

The programme currently includes 20 church planting projects.

Fida has sent workers in Ecuador working in the Multiplication Network of churches. Fida is also building cooperation between its partner churches in South America and Africa, in the areas of staff and leadership training.