Welcome to Kerava Lutheran Church

Our Evangelical Lutheran parish offers mass and other church services, choirs and other activities for people of all ages. We offer pastoral care and counseling for individuals and families. Our diaconal workers are here to help with everyday matters like financial advice, material assistance or dealing with the authorities.

Our activities and services are open to all. Most of them are also free of charge. You can follow the streamed mass on our Facebook pages (under "Keravan seurakunta").

We warmly welcome volunteers.

Please get in touch with me if you would like somebody to talk to. Pastor Christopher Montgomery, 0400 378043.

We are part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland, which about 60 % of Finnish people belong to. It has much in common with the Anglican church. Learn more about the Church and how to become a member.

Know a little Finnish? Read about the Church and our faith in plain Finnish.

Need help?

Whatever problems you may experience, we are here to support you. All consultations with a pastor or diaconal worker are strictly confidential and free of charge.

Pastors offer discussion, spiritual and emotional support, family and relationships counselling and confession.

Diaconal workers offer discussion, financial advice and material assistance, help in dealing with the authorities and filling in forms, family and relationship counselling, emotional support and addiction counselling

Please contact us by phone on 09 478 488 or email at keravan.seurakunta@evl.fi (Mon-Fri 9 am - 3 pm) and we will find someone you can talk to.

Kerava Church and text: Join us for communion service every Sunday at 10 am at Kerava Church

Activities

We offer activities to people of all ages. Most of them are held in Finnish, but you are most welcome to join us even if you don't speak the language. We will find a way for you to participate. You will find all our activities and events at our Events Calendar (tapahtumakalenteri). Here are some of them:

For Children and Families with Children

Lapsille ja lapsiperheille

For Young people

Nuorille

Every Friday young people can get together from 6 pm to 9 pm for Bunkkerin Perjantai (in the Nuorten bunkkeri, Papintie 6E). We also arrange camps and day trips. If you are around 14-15 years of age, you can attend our confirmation camp.

For Adults

Aikuisille

We offer coffee clubs, concerts, lectures, day trips, camps, etc.

Pihapappila (Papintie 6 A) houses an open cafe Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 10 am to 1 pm. There you can meet new friends and chat with our pastors, diaconal workers and volunteers.

Diaconal worker Petra Teittinen (0400 378051) organises Finnish classes for women.

Divine Service and Spiritual Life

Jumalanpalvelukset ja uskonelämä

The communion service or mass is a joint celebration of the parish and is held every Sunday at 10 am in Kerava church (Papintie 2) and every Christian feast day. The church service is a place where God nurtures our faith. Services are held in Finnish, but we have mass sheets with Finnish and English side by side.