22. Slow progress, 1957-1959

1957-1959 District Report 1957. Seven years of work among one of the most isolated and primitive peoples in the world has not yet reached the stage when converts can be listed. In the persons of the missionaries, European and Pacific Island, the church is there. But it is there in order that an indigenous churchContinue reading “22. Slow progress, 1957-1959”

15. Life in Mendi, 1954

People who liked to fight A prohibited area Early medical work Catholic Mission in Mendi Observations of the Methodist Mission, 1954 People who liked to fight By 1954, it was clear that there were many challenges for both the Australian government administration and for missions working in the Southern Highlands. Tribal fighting was one ofContinue reading “15. Life in Mendi, 1954”