Finnish-language Baptist services began in the same church in 1947, when Pastor Toivo Tervonen moved to Chisholm from Ohio and began a home mission program covering the Middle West and Canada. In 1947 Tervonen also began a weekly, half-hour Sunday morning radio program, transmitted originally by a local station but within five years being sent out on a hook-up from Duluth, Ishpeming, Fort Francis-International Falls and Fargo (North Dakota) simultaneously, to reach an audience of tens of thousands of listeners. Finally, in 1954, a Finnish Baptist congregation was established in Chisholm, with Tervonen as its pastor.

Finnish religious activity in Chisholm has also involved the translation into Finnish by Frederick Walter Vasenius of several Adventist religious tracts written by E. G. White.

Chisholm's Independent Choir in 1908. In front: Mrs. J. Korhonen, Helmi
Vinquist, Olga Ahonen, Mrs. Jalmar Krook, Alma (last name not remembered),
Mrs. Peter Johnson (Riihiaho). Second row: Mrs. M. Nikkilä, Mrs. Hauta-aho,
Ivar Ahonen, director, Bertha Haveri, Anna Laurila (Rustari), Jennie Johnson.
Third row: J. Hendrickson, Oscar Laurila, Kalle Väyrynen, Mrs. J. Hautala
(Helenius), Olga Pohjonen, Erland Rustari, Mrs. Matti Boriin, Herman Joki
nen, Ed Ahonen, Hanna Viita (Kulju), Selma Salmi (Lassila). Back row:
Victor Puumala, Peter Walli, Nick Mäki, Pekka Hepola (Johnson), Kalle
Ahonen, Herman Juusela.

The Workers Society: The activities of Finnish workers in Chisholm date from 1904, when 14 persons established a local

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