There was a battle on the Kankaanpää congregation’s non secular camp, which led to a change of pastor in the midst of the camp.
Rippileiri prepares younger folks for Christian affirmation, the place a parishioner turns into a full member of the church. Illustration picture. Aarne Ormio, Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland
On the parish camp in Kankaanpää, the pastor who led the camp was changed on the flight in the midst of the camp.
Ripple campers who spent Midsummer on the camp in June had an uncommon night exercise on Midsummer’s Eve.
Kankaanpää Parish head of youth work chargeable for the priest’s college work Juha Erkkilä says that few parishes arrange non secular camps that final past Midsummer. The explanations are many, and one among them is the will of younger folks to spend the midsummer occasion with their associates.
Kankaanpää parish works in another way. He confirms to Iltalehti that the pastor of the camp will change throughout the camp.
– Nothing dramatic has occurred there, Erkkilä emphasizes.
– Only a regular camp. On Midsummer’s Eve, the state of affairs escalated, however that’s regular to some extent in nearly each camp. The campers and the camp administration disagreed about one thing, and the state of affairs acquired so tense that the 2 younger folks went house for the night time.
– It actually wasn’t any intoxicants or something related, he says.
Erkkilä says that he has heard that “one if one other” rumor has unfold in regards to the camp after the state of affairs. Based on him, the occasions of the neighboring church are blended up within the rumours.
In Kankaanpää’s neighbor Merikarvia, the vicar’s use of intoxicants at a non secular camp led to the camp being suspended and his suspension from workplace. The matter grew to become public just a few weeks in the past.
The priest who led the camp was changed for the final days of the priest camp in Kankaanpää parish. Illustration picture. STEEP VESA
A storm in a glass of water
Based on Erkkilä, the choice of the vicar of the Kankaanpää parish to alter the chief of the camp on the fly was comprehensible in its context, even when it was an distinctive determination.
The 2 younger folks spent the night time at house, and the following morning the priest who ran the camp invited the vicar to research the escalation of the state of affairs.
– Much more tough conditions occur at camps, however for the reason that state of affairs of the neighboring church was contemporary in his reminiscence, the vicar determined to handle the final couple of days of the camp himself.
The pastor took over the duties on the vicar’s calendar for these days.
– They’re each skilled guys, it solely hurts like that.
Iltalehti couldn’t attain the vicar of Kankaanpää Mika from Kyyti to touch upon what occurred.
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