Our Mission

Church planting

Our mission is to establish/plant new churches among the unreached peoples. After establishing we want to support them and help them grow.

Methods and co-operation

We are using media with a Christian message within major language groups. We work with partners—individuals and other Christian organizations—in Finland and abroad.

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Trusted channel

We work hard to be an efficient and trusted channel to reach individuals and nations with the Gospel of Christ through communication methods of media.

FOUNDED

VIEWER REPORTS FROM 180 COUNTRIES

LANGUAGE GROUPS

NEW PROGRAMS ANNUALLY

History

Keymedia (Avainmedia Lähetysjärjestö ry) was founded in 1955 alongside its Swedish sister organization. It was initially called IBRA Radio Finland. In 2000 two Finnish missions organizations merged to become Avainmedia. Avainmedia is working very closely with the Finnish Pentecostal movement. Local congregations in Finland support Avainmedia. Avainmedia has in Finland some 15,500 subscribers for its monthly newspaper. Avainmedia Facebook page has over 10,000 followers.

Timeline

1955

Gospel music publishing started (Single, EP and LP records)

1970
Avainsanoma (Key message) newspaper was founded
1980
First TV programs in Finnish
1983
First Arabic radio programs
1990
Cable channel program “Tarjolla elämä” in Finnish
1993
Sunday school and youth outreach started in China
2003
Arabic satellite channel was launched
2004
Netmission to merge with Avainmedia
2007
Electronic Bible distribution to North Korea
2011
Hebrew channel Yeshuachai.tv launched
2013
New domestic web site with evangelistic content

2015

 

Somali language web site launched
IBRA Radio established – broadcasting in Finnish started in July 1955
1960
First radio programs in Russian
1975
Pentecostal Churches in Finland launched a Prayer Crusade for Russia
1983
Bible translation work for the Fenno-Ugric languages
1988
New headquarters opened in Kerava
1991
Arabic TV programs launched
2000
A joint effort with Russian churches to help imprisoned Russian individuals to connect with their children
2003
HSR-TV and Avainsanoma merge to become Avainmedia (Keymedia)
2006
Avainmedia joins the Turkish channel Kanal Hayat
2009
UskoTV web channel launched
2012
Avainmedia joins the Urdu language channel Zindagi TV
2013
Co-operation with messianic Jews in Israel
2016

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