Filadelfia Oslo

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The Filadelfia Congregation building in St. Olavs Gate, Oslo, before extensive renovation in 2010-2012. JP Fagerback.
The entrance area after the renovation. Jan-Tore Egge.

Filadelfiakirken Oslo is a Christian community ( Menigheten ) of the Pentecostal movement in Norway . It is the largest Pentecostal church in the country and offers extensive offers at home and abroad.

history

The Filadelfia Congregation was founded by Thomas Ball Barratt . In 1916 she was the first church in Kristiania to officially join the Pentecostal movement. It was not officially founded until 1916, although it had been offering events at various locations in Kristiania since 1910. At the time of its foundation, the congregation had around 200 members, in 2012 there were more than 2,000, of which 1,825 were baptized and 538 were still unbaptized children.

The church has always had a central place in Norway because of its age and size.

The church building in St. Olavsgate, the “New Filadelfia”, was inaugurated in 1938 after extensive renovation. According to Barratt's memoir, the architect Thomas Strandskogen was the head of the building committee.

From 2010 the premises were again extensively converted to create space for a foyer, office space and a café.

The community now has jobs in six locations:

  • Filadelfiakirken Sentrum (St. Olavsgate, Oslo)
  • Mikrofila Barnekirke (Children's Church, St. Olavsgate, Oslo)
  • Ungfila (Youth Church, St. Olavsgate, Oslo)
  • Filadelfiakirken Majorstuen
  • Filadelfiakirken Lillestrøm
  • Filadelfiakirken Enebakk

working area

  • Sunday services with Sunday school
  • Youth work
  • Bible school
  • Alpha courses
  • Small church, home group work
  • Filos - youth club in Sagene
  • Center for Prayer and Pastoral Care

mission

The church has served worldwide missions from the beginning . Under the umbrella of the De norske pinsemenigheters ytremisjon (Norwegian Pentecostal Mission, PYM), missionaries are active in the Congo (with CELPA - Pentecostal Movement in the Congo), the Philippines , India and the Middle East .

Church leadership

The church has both organizational and spiritual leadership. The organs of the leadership are a leadership council or council of elders ( lederråd or eldsteråd ), the pastors with different responsibilities and leadership teams . Eldsteråd is elected by the members of the community.

Senior Pastors (chronological)

collaboration

The Filadelfia Blaker community in Blaker is a subsidiary of the Filadelfiakirken.

In addition, the community is home to several international, non-Norwegian, ethnic communities in Oslo.

  • Chuch of Pentecost
  • Shalom Eritean Pentecostal Church
  • Shikaina Church
  • Filipino Christian Church

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Brox, TF 2009.
  2. ↑ Thomas Ball Barratt: Erindringer. (Memories - 1862-1940). Filadelfiaforlaget, Oslo 1941: 256-259.

literature

  • Torill F. Brox (Ed.): Årbok 2007. For Pinsebevegelsen i Norge. Corsets Seier Publikasjoner AS 2007.
  • Torill F. Brox (Ed.): Årbok 2009. For Pinsebevegelsen i Norge. Corsets Seier Publikasjoner AS 2009.

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