Gathering for God
Subtitle: George Brown in Oceania
Publisher: Univ of Otago Pr
Published: May 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9781877372186
Subjects: Biography: general; Christian mission & evangelism; History; History: World; Oceania; World - General; Biography; England; Missionaries; Missions; Wesleyan Methodist Church
Description: "Originally from the north of England, Brown worked as a Wesleyan Methodist missionary in Samoa (1860) and the Bismarck Archipelago of Papua New Guinea (1875). In the 1880s, he became general secretary of the Australasian Methodist Overseas Mission, a post he held for more than twenty years and which involved further travel in the Pacific. His colourful life provides a case study of the role of Christian missionaries at this time."--Back cover.