Peik Vä­hä­jylk­kä and Saa­ra Ko­leh­mai­nen

Phil Jur­mu is a fa­ci­li­ty ma­na­ger for an LLC. His res­pon­si­bi­li­ties in Ame­ri­ca inc­lu­de over­sight and ge­ne­ral ma­na­ge­ment of all LLC ow­ned and ope­ra­ted fa­ci­li­ties.

The pri­ma­ry fo­cus of the po­si­ti­on is to main­tain the ove­rall spi­ri­tu­al at­mosp­he­re at camps. In ad­di­ti­on his fo­cus is on the ad­mi­nist­ra­ti­on, ope­ra­ti­ons, fi­nan­ces, and pub­lic re­la­ti­ons of fa­ci­li­ties. The Fa­ci­li­ties Ma­na­ger is the LLC li­ai­son to all res­pec­ti­ve Camp Bo­ards.

In June, Jur­mu was in Fin­land with his wife, Sa­rah, and his yo­un­gest daugh­ters, Ja­nel­le and Jes­si­ca, for just over two weeks. He taught at a con­fir­ma­ti­on camp in Mai­toi­nen and al­so fa­mi­li­a­ri­zed him­self with ot­her SRK camp cen­ters and the Sum­mer Ser­vi­ces.

The trip be­gan with a con­fir­ma­ti­on camp in Mai­toi­nen.

– It was a joy to be here. It was nice to quick­ly make friends with the staff and con­fir­ma­ti­on stu­dents.

Jur­mu felt that the con­fir­ma­ti­on stu­dents were very at­ten­ti­ve du­ring les­sons, and the staff were en­cou­ra­ging in their work.

– Many con­fir­ma­ti­on stu­dents simp­ly wan­ted to be­lie­ve, which was very en­cou­ra­ging to see. I mar­vel at the po­wer of the Holy Spi­rit, which uni­tes the King­dom of God whe­re­ver His pe­op­le are.

He sta­tes that the camp ex­pe­rien­ce was won­der­ful.

– Con­fir­ma­ti­on class is very fa­mi­li­ar to con­fir­ma­ti­on schools in North Ame­ri­ca, he men­ti­ons.

Af­ter the con­fir­ma­ti­on camp, he vi­si­ted Sii­ka­tör­mä, the SRK Of­fi­ce and Han­ka­sal­mi, and spent Mid­sum­mer with his son's fa­mi­ly.

– The trip has been re­al­ly good. I've been warm­ly wel­co­med eve­ryw­he­re I've been, Jur­mu says gra­te­ful­ly.

This was the first time Phil and Sa­rah Jur­mu at­ten­ded the SRK Sum­mer Ser­vi­ces.

– It was ama­zing to see so many pe­op­le at­ten­ding ser­vi­ces. The or­ga­ni­za­ti­on for food and lod­ging in it­self, is ext­ra­or­di­na­ry, but more im­por­tant­ly, the mes­sa­ge of sal­va­ti­on was pre­ac­hed and brought com­fort and sup­port for our en­de­a­vor of faith.

Be­fo­re the trip, Phil Jur­mu was a lit­t­le wor­ried, but he quick­ly re­a­li­zed there was no cau­se for con­cern.

– I quick­ly un­ders­tood there was no need to wor­ry. God ta­kes care of eve­ryt­hing.

They left Fin­land with many gree­tings.

– As we were le­a­ving the Fin­nish sum­mer ser­vi­ces, it brought us great joy that so many pe­op­le re­qu­es­ted that we take their gree­tings of love and God's pe­a­ce to North Ame­ri­ca. The bond of pe­a­ce and uni­ty bet­ween God's child­ren is a great bles­sing