{"id":24706,"date":"2025-10-24T13:07:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T13:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/?p=24706"},"modified":"2025-10-20T15:58:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T15:58:55","slug":"a-year-of-mission-newbold-students-serve-and-grow-in-finland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/a-year-of-mission-newbold-students-serve-and-grow-in-finland\/","title":{"rendered":"A Year of Mission: Newbold Students Serve and Grow in Finland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2 October 2025 | Vantaa, Finland [Joe Philpott]<\/p>\n<p>What does mission look like when faith meets real life? During the 2024\/2025 academic year, students from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newbold.ac.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Newbold College of Higher Education<\/a> (NCHE) took part in the One Year in Mission &amp; Service (OYiMS) programme, combining classroom learning with practical outreach. After a semester of study and preparation at NCHE, the group travelled to Oikos Church in Finland for their mission placement.<\/p>\n<p>Developed in partnership with the Trans-European Division (TED), <a href=\"https:\/\/adra.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ADRA-UK<\/a>, and NCHE, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newbold.ac.uk\/courses\/one-year-in-mission-and-service\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OYiMS programme<\/a> equips young adults to share Christ through practical compassion and community engagement. In Finland, students joined local initiatives, supported churches, and experienced firsthand how mission can transform lives.<\/p>\n<p>The video, <em data-start=\"1175\" data-end=\"1250\">\u201cNewbold missionary students in Finland,\u201d<\/em> captures moments from their time at Oikos, highlighting how faith, teamwork, and cultural discovery come together when young people dedicate their energy to living out God\u2019s call.<\/p>\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_59483\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"  data-origwidth=\"800\" data-origheight=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7aRPRZGjPik?enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/ted.adventist.org&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=0&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"Newbold missionary students in Finland\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p data-start=\"3448\" data-end=\"3672\"><em>[Photo &amp; Video: NCHE]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video captures their inspiring journey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":24708,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1571,1572,1584,7],"tags":[166],"class_list":["post-24706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education-educational-entities","category-evangelism-mission","category-finland","category-news","tag-finland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24706"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24762,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24706\/revisions\/24762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}