April May 2022

April May NewsletterIn the company of the Risen One   Easter is a great celebration for the Christians. Jesus is risen. He has over-come the power of sin and death. Faith in the risen Jesus has moved you from the power of sin and death to be the heir to the...

February March 2022

Command and Faith With confirmation class students, we have recently studied the Catechism and the Ten Commandments. In general, the word command can sound negative. You have to do something that someone else says. Naturally, we would like to choose for ourselves what...

December 2021 January 2021

Help is Needed There have been problems and delays in the delivery of goods around the world. Not everyone’s Christmas presents might arrive on time, and others weren’t able to get exactly what they wished in a Santa’s sack. Without stuff, a person can...

November Newsletter 2021

Worth of a Man We live in a world where we rely on different calculations. Whether it’s measuring time or distance, sports performance, school success, or money, we rely on our calculations. Without common projections, life would be chaotic, uncertain and even more...

September October 2021

Set free The title refers to the familiar Finnish Kai Hyttinen’s chorus of the song “Kurki”. Freedom is a value that we sometimes take for granted. The pandemic has brought many    restrictions that have affected, among other things, freedom of movement and assembly....

Summer Bulletin

“Like father like son” When our daughter was three years old and I had hurt my back, I walked for a while with my back crooked and my other hand behind my back. My mother who happened to be there wondered how my daughter soon walked in the same way, her back bent and...