The Birth of an indigenous church
Subtitle: letters, reports and documents of Lutheran christians of Papua New Guinea
By: edited by Gernot Fugmann
Series: Point series -- no. 10; Point series -- no. 10.
Publisher: Melanesian Institute
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Goroka, Papua New Guinea
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
Subjects: Lutheran Church; Missions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Glossary and abbreviations; title: Introduction: Tracing the roots.; title: 1. The new Christians: autobiographical sketches (Sila Kamugsanga: the first baptised Lutheran ; Gapenuo, the apostle of the Gazubs ; Recollections of Geyammalo Apo ; Life and work of Ereepa ; Pastor Akikepe, missionary to the Ulap and Kabwum people ; Pastor Filiepa, the missionary among the Komba ; Manana: God heard her cry ; Pastor Akiro of Asoroka ; The belief experience of Raunuwe Rasowe ; Bishop Sir Zurewe Zurenuo: the first national bishop); title: 2. The new-found faith: developing an understanding of the new life and new ways (1. Developing an understanding of the new faith ; 2. Decline in the practice of the faith); title: 3. The mission calls: discovering brotherhood (1. Outreach in the Huon Peninsula ; 2. Expansion into the Highlands ; 3. Mission in the Madang area); title: 4. Experiencing the white man's secular world (The arrival of the white people ; Working as Christians in plantations ; Observing the whites ; Burning of the spears); title: 5. Search for life and renewal (1. The Eemasang movement ; 2. Upikno movement ; 3. The 'As Bilong Kago' conferences ; 4. The Kukusik movement on Bagabag and Karker Islands ; 5. The Yali movement ; 6. Confusion about 'cargo'); title: 6. From vision to church: an autonomous church is born (1. Towards autonomy ; 2. Declaring and developing an autonomous church [The declaration of autonomy ; The Lutheran Church in the eighties] ; 3. Centenary celebration address by Head Bishop Getake S. Gam); title: Epilogue: History's challenge to the future mission.