This Christmas Eve our family was blessed with a wonderful nativity play, perhaps the best nativity play ever… It was performed in our church in South Germany. The church was packed with people, just as Bethlehem was at the time of the census of Caesar Augustus. It took some time to quiet down, until everyone […]

The season of Advent is a time during which we are invited to reflect on the reason for the season: on Christ, and our relation to him. We may reason it out, and ask ourselves, who he really is, what he is all about, and how I should relate to him? We may […]

Family Christmas Service & Potluck: Sunday, 6 December, 16.00 pm, St. Luke’s Chapel, Yliopistokatu 7, Oulu. Join in for an edifying Advent message in English and some fun activities by/for kids and grown ups. Bring along food and drinks you would like to share (either for the main meal or dessert – or a […]

Welcome to join the traditional Christmas Carols on Sunday, 20 December at 16.00 at St. Luke’s Chapel (Yliopistokatu 7, close to the main campus of The University of Oulu). Come to sing the most beautiful songs for Advent and Christmas. Church musician Taina Voutilainen and Soiva satsi ensemble will accompany, and Terttu Laaksonen shall give […]