Felm Fellowship is a global partnership community that brings churches and organizations together for shared learning, exchange and participation – beyond traditional project concept.
Global Partnership Community
Felm Fellowship is a global community and collaboration platform for partner churches and organizations of the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Mission (Felm).
Fellowship brings together partners from different regions and countries to share experiences, build relationships and strengthen partnerships. It creates opportunities to learn from one another through joint activities, such as workshops, discussions, and events on topics of common interest.
The Fellowship is not a project or a funding mechanism. It is a partner-based communion approach that continues beyond project cooperation.
Objectives
The key objectives of the Fellowship are:
- Strengthening partnerships
- Maintain and deepen long-term relationships between partners beyond project cycles
- Foster equal, participatory and trust-based collaboration
- Shared learning and knowledge exchange
- Create spaces for sharing experiences, good practices and theological reflection
- Enable joint learning on key topical issues through webinars, discussions and peer exchange
- Building a global community
- Connect churches and civil society organisations across regions and countries where Felm operates or has worked in the past
- Strengthen a shared sense of belonging within the global church
- Value-based collaboration
The fellowship is guided by shared values:- dignity
- justice
- diversity and inclusion
- participation and responsibility
- joint action
The Role of Partners
Partners are at the heart of the Fellowship.
They:
- actively participate in joint activities
- contribute their perspectives, lessons learned and expertise
- suggest themes, topics and forms of collaboration
The Fellowship is not a one-way programme: partners are equal co-creators, not just participants
In practice:
- Partners co-design and co-create activities
- Cooperation continues even without project funding
Forms of Collaboration
Examples of Fellowship activities include:
- online seminars and trainings
- regional and global workshops
- Global News Hour – discussions on current themes (e.g. theology, youth, AI, societal issues)
- peer learning networks
- dialogue and collaboration between churches and organizations
Long-term Vision
The Fellowship aims to develop into:
- A sustainable partnership network
- Moving from project-based cooperation to ongoing relationships
- Moving from project-based cooperation to ongoing relationships
- Stronger global interaction
- More joint discussions and shared initiatives
- Increased learning across regions
- Partner-driven collaboration
- Partners actively shaping content and direction
- Partners actively shaping content and direction
- A light and flexible structure
- Minimal bureaucracy
- Focus on dialogue, connection and shared action
- Clear and effective communication
- Use of multiple channels (e.g. e-mail, Teams, web presence and social media)
- Increased awareness of Fellowship among all partners
All of Felm´s present and past partners are warmly welcome to join the fellowship and contribute to the network.
In fellowship we are not just building a new structure, but listening to our partners: what they really need and what meaningful things they want to share with each other.
Contact: felm.fellowship@felm.org
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