HISTORY

 

Nordic Pentecostal pioneer history

For more than 100 years the Pentecostal movements in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland has sent missionaries all over the world. In central and eastern Africa, we have founded 13 denominations that today gathers more than 25 million members. The relationship between those strong and vibrant churches and the Nordic mother churches is a relationship built on a strong sense of being a spiritual family. We have a common history, and we are ROOTED together. Since we are family we also stand together in the Great Commission.

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UKIAMKA

As the nationalization process moved on during the 1960 there was a strong need among some of the leaders in the African denominations with a Nordic background to organize a network of churches built on a common theological understanding. This led to the formation of a network called UKIAMKA. Today all the 13 denominations founded in central and eastern Africa are members in UKIAMKA. The countries where those denominations are located are Ethiopia, South Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and DR Congo. We call it the UKIAMKA-region. 

 

THE HUB  

In 2017 Niklas Piensoho from Filadelfia Stockholm invited some of the pastors in Sweden, Finland and Norway to share a vision. The vision was to strengthen the relationship between the Nordic churches and the church movements in Africa, that Nordic missionaries planted many years ago.

“Can we unite and find a way of standing, learning and working together for the Kingdom of God, in the years to come?”

Our mission history from Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland is a story about planting churches in Africa with a Swedish, Norwegian, Dennish or Finish. In a world torn by conflict and division we need to change this by being united from the north and be an example to our African sister churches. 

The result of these conversations resulted in two conferences with 13 church movements and about 90 leaders. One in 2018 in Kigali and one in Addis Abba in 2019.