It is one of seven organisations of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland (ELCF) that conduct missionary work.

[6] There they established the mission station at Omandongo, today in the Onayena Constituency of Oshikoto Region.

[6] The best-known Finnish missionary in Namibia was Nakambale (Ndonga for 'the one who wears the hat'), a nickname given to Martti Rautanen.

He initiated the building of the first church in Ovamboland in 1889, and he translated the Bible into Oshindonga, a dialect of Oshivambo.

[9] With a consortium of other mission agencies, in 1966 the FELM was also involved in establishing the China Lutheran Seminary in Hsinchu City, Taiwan.