{"id":3222,"date":"2025-06-15T01:30:02","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T22:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2025\/?p=3222"},"modified":"2025-06-15T01:30:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T22:30:02","slug":"people-gathered-at-the-jukola-forest-church-in-warm-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2025\/en\/people-gathered-at-the-jukola-forest-church-in-warm-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"People gathered at the Jukola Forest Church in warm weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For years, the Forest Church has been an integral part of the Jukola relay event. This year, the Forest Church was held by the lake Hyyrylampi in Tikkala forest. There were about 400 participants.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2018Movement is medicine, and exercise in the forest is the perfect medicine,\u2019 said vicar <\/span><b>Jyrki Koivikko <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">in his sermon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He welcomed all orienteers, volunteers and congregation in Mikkeli, in the forest of the archangel Michael: \u2018Welcome to the forest of the city of angels to seek and perhaps to find.\u2019 The forest calms and empowers, and for many, the forest and nature itself are already a church.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Parish pastor <\/span><b>Eija Juuma<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> was delighted with the good cooperation and excellent spirit of volunteerism with the Jukola organisation. Attending the service is a good way to get a feel for the atmosphere and community spirit of Jukola.It&#8217;s great that the church is involved in such a big sporting event.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The event ended with the Jukola song.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The liturgist was Dean <\/span><b>Arja Huuskonen<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and the sermon was given by vicar Jyrki Koivikko. Parish pastor Eija Juuma assisted as priest, and cantor <\/span><b>Mirja Husso<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and the Asante choir were responsible for the music. <\/span><b>Pertti Lamminaho<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and <\/span><b>Eeva-Liisa Tiilikka<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> served as vergers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Text: Sari Parkkinen<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Photos: Lotta Niskanen<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Translation: Irma Gynther-Karppinen<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years, the Forest Church has been an integral part of the Jukola relay event. This year, the Forest Church&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":3191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ajankohtaista-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3223,"href":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3222\/revisions\/3223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}