19. Progress in Tari, 1956

1956 New interest in church activities By 1956, the work of the Methodist Mission in Tari was becoming well established. The staff team was a strong international group with pastors from New Guinea, Papuan Islands and the Solomon Islands and ministers, teachers and medical workers from Australia, New Zealand, Tonga and Germany.  The ministers wereContinue reading “19. Progress in Tari, 1956”

10. A New Beginning in Tari, 1953

Tari, 1953 Why did a new Methodist mission start in Tari in 1953?  In some ways this is surprising. In 1953, the mission work in Mendi was still very new. The mission group had only been there for two years. They were a very small team, with two ministers, one agriculturalist, one teacher, one nurseContinue reading “10. A New Beginning in Tari, 1953”