April 16-18, 2021
For this city
The Visio Church Conference is a three-day online event hosted by Tampere Pentecostal Church, through which we seek to invite Christians to come and be ignited by God’s mission for His church.
We want to remind ourselves about a mission, bigger than ourselves, which God is calling us to be a part of.
In these times of change, there is a great need for Christians who are determined to bring the message of the gospel forth together.
We believe that God has a clear mission and a calling for His church. Our Visio Conference seeks to serve this purpose: to equip and ignite.
ONLINE CONFERENCE
ONLINE
CONFERENCE
Watch Visio Conference 2021 recordings on uskotv.fi and on Tampereen Helluntaiseurakunta YouTube Channel.
SINGER JIPPU
On Sunday April 18th at 3pm.
PROGRAM
FRIDAY April 16
6pm VISIO EVENING, OPENING SEREMONY
“A Gift for the City”
Jukka Kakriainen, Markus Rautaniemi
Visio Ensemble
Interpretation into English.
8pm FIRECAMP
Prayer and worship
Joona Salo, Visio Ensemble
Interpretation into English.
SATURDAY April 17
10-10.30am KIDS MUSIC TIME
On Zoom
2pm URBAN PANEL
Markku Ojaniemi, Roni Lempiäinen, Katja Castillo, Jaakko Pasanen and Jarkko Lindqvist
Visio house band
Interpretation into English.
4pm VISIO AFTERNOON
“That no one would be left alone”
Sara Saarela, Petteri Arasalo
Visio house band
Interpretation into English.
5.30-6pm SKIDIEN MEININGIT
For Children on Zoom
6pm VISIO EVENING
“The Hope for this City”
Jyrki Palmi, Usko Katto
Visio house band
Interpretation into English and Arabic.
8.30pm VISIO x LOST & FOUND
For youth
“LIGHT”
Timo Raassina, LoFo band
SUNDAY April 18
10.30-11am SKIDIEN MEININGIT
For Children on Zoom
11am SUNDAY MORNING SERVICE
“For the Nations”
Jyrki Palmi, Usko Katto
Visio Ensemble
Interpretation into English, Arabic and Persian.
3pm SINGER JIPPU
5pm ILTAKIRKKO UNITED
“For the People”
Timo Raassina, Hannakaisa Shehu
Visio Ensemble
Interpretation into English and Arabic.
INTERPRETATION
Interpretation will be provided via Interactio app. If you like you can download the app to your phone in advance.
1) Watch the stream (and audio in Finnish) when the meeting starts on YouTube.
2) Interpretation is available via Interactio app (Event code: VISIO).
VIRTUAL LOUNGE
Do you miss meeting up with other church members after meetings in our cafe?
Well now you can get a chance to do that after the Visio sessions virtually. Come and meet up with those you know and get to know new faces.
Lounge is open after each meeting.
VISIO FOR KIDS
In Finnish
10-10.30am KIDS MUSIC TIME
For ages 2 to 4
5.30-6pm SKIDIEN MEININGIT
10.30-11am SKIDIEN MEININGIT
GUEST SPEAKERS
This year’s Visio speakers have a heart and vision for the church; they come from varying backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives to bring you a message that ignites a passion for the church, your city, and the world.
JYRKI PALMI // FIDA
Jyrki Palmi is the assistant executive director of Fida International, who has many years’ experience as both a pastor and missionary. Jyrki has a passion for engaging with people and lifting them up. He sees as the great wealth of the church the many different kinds of people from different levels of society and backgrounds coming together in unity
TIMO RAASSINA // JYVÄSKYLÄ
Timo Raassina is passionate about encouraging and empowering the next generation to engage in God’s vision. He is a friendly and compassionate man pastoring youth in the Jyväskylä church. He believes that the church is a place where people can learn from one another, and this is his own experience as well. Timo feels privileged to be a part of something bigger, working with God, through people.
SARA SAARELA // SASTAMALA
Sara is a theologian and writer whose understanding of God has been healed through her Bible training. She gets great joy working through biblical Hebrew and Greek and translating biblical texts in her own devotions. About the church she notes: “Relationships both break and heal people. We are called to be God’s hands and feet, listening ears and shoulders to cry on. And when this takes place, it brings change.”
JUKKA KAKRIAINEN // HELSINKI
Jukka is the pastor at the Missions Church in Helsinki. He enjoys polar bear swims, Italian food, but above all he loves God and sharing about God’s greatness. He believes that unity in the church is the core and it must be experienced and not just talked about. People coming from different backgrounds, yet experiencing unity and a sense belonging to the church is what it’s all about.
MARKKU OJANIEMI
Markku is one of the guests for the urban panel on Saturday. He loves studying the Word of God. He is one of the teachers at Iso Kirja Bible college. For him, the best part of the church is that it is instituted, built up, and sustained by God. He sees that the church is both uniform and changing as each generation proceeds in applying faith to its context
RONI LEMPIÄINEN
Roni is a musician and youth influence, whose passion is to help people to see just how great God is. He believes that the best part about the church is coming together either in small groups or crowds and learning more about the Bible and worshipping God. Roni is one of the panelists on Saturday.
KATJA CASTILLO
Katja is the children’s ministry coordinator in the Pentecostal churches of Finland. For her the best part of the church is the voices and commotion of children, spending time together, and letting God bring impact through it all. She is passionate of strengthening the dialogue between the church and society. She wants to see new ways of sharing one’s faith, values, and ethics. Katja is one of the panelists on Saturday
WE ARE WAITING FOR YOU
The Visio Conference ignites the heart. We believe that God is going to write a message in our minds and encourage us towards His purposes. It is of vital importance that we have opportunity to seek his vision and take part in it together.
“For this city” – theme leads us to think about our home cities and the people within. This theme emphasizes us to engage our cities with the love of God and take advantage of opportunities for the betterment of the city.
God has a plan for Tampere and for your city. He wants to ignite in us a love for our cities because each person in our city is valuable.
The Visio Conference will also encourage us to harness art and media as tools and to seek creative ways in seeing His Kingdom move forward. Come and join us to be built up together through His vision.
Usko Katto
Head pastor
