Southern Finland Seniors at Maitoinen Camp – Every person is worth meeting

Se­ni­ors from all over Sout­hern Fin­land gat­he­red at the Mai­toi­nen camp cen­ter to en­joy the prog­ram or­ga­ni­zed by Es­poo Rau­ha­nyh­dis­tys. Char­ter bu­ses came from Es­poo and Hel­sin­ki. There were a to­tal of 137 se­ni­ors and staff from six­teen cong­re­ga­ti­ons.

The same word has been preached

It is Sa­tur­day eve­ning and com­mu­ni­on ser­vi­ce is about to be­gin in the be­au­ti­ful Ger­man Church in Stock­holm’s Old Town. Eric Jur­mu, who ser­ves as mi­nis­ter in the Rock­ford cong­re­ga­ti­on in Min­ne­so­ta, is due to as­sist du­ring the Holy Com­mu­ni­on. He is sit­ting in the front part of the church, wai­ting for the ser­vi­ce to be­gin.

Blog: Gratitude for the Opisto year

Our Opis­to stu­dent comp­le­ted his ye­ar Jäm­sä Opis­to last spring. He was our first child to at­tend Opis­to. With this mi­ni­mal pa­ren­tal ex­pe­rien­ce, I am hap­py to re­com­mend Opis­to to eve­ry yo­ung per­son.

Blog: A future with one deadline

This fall I star­ted my fifth ye­ar in uni­ver­si­ty. My stu­dies have re­ac­hed a point where there is on­ly an un­comp­le­ted Mas­ter’s the­sis bet­ween me and gra­du­a­ti­on.

Blog: Joy of sunlight in frizzy hair

I pul­led up the last leeks and pars­nips when the soil was al­re­a­dy hard from sub­ze­ro tem­pe­ra­tu­res. I like the ex­ci­te­ment of gro­wing new and dif­fe­rent ve­ge­tab­le spe­cies and not kno­wing when exact­ly to har­vest them, or even kno­wing what I will find in my ve­ge­tab­le patch. I do not mind long and mild fal­ls like the one we have had. I can take my time won­de­ring if I should pull up the ve­ge­tab­les to­day or to­mor­row.

Blog: Consumer habits – are they value-based or dictated by necessity?

Vesa Kum­pu­la’s re­cent post about mo­ney made me pon­der about what mo­ney me­ans to me per­so­nal­ly. I ag­ree with Vesa that mo­ney does not bring hap­pi­ness, but it does make life ea­sier. If mo­ney is tight, we have to choo­se what to spend it on, and we may not be ab­le to con­si­der ot­hers as­pects of con­sump­ti­on, such as how et­hi­cal, en­vi­ron­men­tal­ly friend­ly or du­rab­le our choi­ces are.

Blog: Life-long learning

Our four-ye­ar-old grand­son star­ted presc­hool. Both his pa­rents and his grand­pa­rent wor­ried about his ad­just­ment. Ap­pa­rent­ly, ho­we­ver, eve­ryt­hing went well. He found new friends. The on­ly di­sap­point­ment was that the hand­so­me mi­ni­bus which took him to school for the first few days was la­ter rep­la­ced by an or­di­na­ry car. A cau­se of joy was the pair of trai­ners bought by mom and grand­ma from a se­cond-hand store. They tur­ned out to be the se­cond fas­test in his class.

Blog: Together we are stronger

Face-to-face in­te­rac­ti­on enab­les many sen­so­ry ex­pe­rien­ces that are ne­ver pre­sent in vir­tu­al com­mu­ni­ca­ti­on. The 2022 Sum­mer Ser­vi­ces sta­red my won­der­ful July. It seems my cup has been overf­lo­wing for many days, and I am re­al­ly gra­te­ful for that! The won­der­ful pe­op­le that I met at the Sum­mer Ser­vi­ces made my ext­ro­vert he­art blos­som.

Blog: Songs of praise and tears of joy

If I were as­ked to choo­se one thing that I could do fo­re­ver, it would be an ea­sy choi­ce. I could sing fo­re­ver in the big tent at Sum­mer Ser­vi­ces. I am sure many pe­op­le ag­ree with me. It is so­met­hing one can on­ly ex­pe­rien­ce by being pre­sent in the tent.

Blog: Let us save time

Ef­forts to save time have a long his­to­ry. I per­so­nal­ly re­mem­ber some ways to save time in the 1960s.