Seppo Saari, PhD, Associate professor, was the first chair and a pioneer in establishing Christian school movement in Finland during the 1980s and 2010s. Kirsti Saari, PhD, was the first teacher at Helsinki Christian School, serving from 1987 to 2012. An article based on her doctoral thesis, "The Operational Culture in Finnish Christian Schools," explores the theory and practice of the Pedagogy of Encounter.