Minutes of the Church Advisory Committee and of the London Missionary Society Gilbert Islands District Committee, 1939-1960 [microform]
- Bib ID:
- 4936436
- Format:
- Manuscript and Microform
- Author:
- Kiribati Protestant Church
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- Description:
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- [1939-1960]
- 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.
- Series:
- PMB (Australian National University. Pacific Manuscripts Bureau) ; 1317.
- Summary:
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Minute book of the Church Advisory Committee, 28 February 1939-12 June 1954, in Gilbertese, Kabowi Nos. 144-238, Ts., ff. 1-172, and minute book of the London Missionary Society Gilbert Islands District Committee, 12 April 1940-19 August 1960, in English, Ts., ff. 1-239. The latter includes, Te Kabowi n i-buobucki n tain te tienture i Mokikao Abaiang, Ritemba 10-13, 1957, Ts., pp. 1-20, in Gilbertese, microfilmed at the end of the reel. The minutes are in poor condition, some fragmented, some mouldy, pasted into the minute books. The binding is loose or broken.
- Biography/History:
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The first resident missionaries to today's Kiribati came with some Hawaiian pastors in 1857, through the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Mission (ABCFM). They settled in Northern Kiribati and established a school to teach young people to read and write. Although their success in evangelization was limited, their greatest contribution was the translation of the Bible, completed in 1893, and the translation of Christian hymns into the Kiribati language. In 1870 a number of Samoan missionaries came with a missionary from the London Missionary Society (LMS) to Southern Kiribati. A boarding school, a training institution for pastors and a printing press were established in 1900. The ABCFM finally left in 1917 and entrusted all the schools and churches in Northern and Central Kiribati to the London Missionary Society. In 1920 local pastors started to help the Samoan pastors in the evangelization and recruiting for pastors from Samoa gradually ended. By 1945, after World War II, the local pastors gradually took over from the Samoans and started to prepare plans for autonomy which culminated at the first general assembly of the Gilbert Island Protestant Church in 1968. The name changed to Kiribati Protestant Church in 1979 when the Gilbert Islands - the larger part of the British Gilbert and Ellice Islands colony - became independent as the Republic of Kiribati.
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- Microfilm copy of originals held in private ownership.
- In English and Kiribati
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- Microfilm. Canberra, A.C.T. : Produced for the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, Australian National University. 1 microfilm reel.
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