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Also, her trade changed to London-Port Jackson. [5] By 1797, her trade was London-South Seas. [a] The London Missionary Society instructed Wilson to deliver a group of missionaries and their families (consisting of thirty men, six women, and three children) to their postings in Tahiti, Tonga, and the Marquesas Islands.
The London Missionary Society was an interdenominational evangelical missionary society formed in England in 1795 at the instigation of Welsh Congregationalist minister Edward Williams. It was largely Reformed in outlook, with Congregational missions in Oceania, Africa, and the Americas, although there were also Presbyterians (notable for their ...
Captain James Wilson (1760–1814), commanded the British ship Duff, which the London Missionary Society contracted in 1797 to convey a team of missionaries (consisting of thirty men, six women, and three children) to their postings in Tahiti, Tonga, and the Marquesas Islands.
A slight mellowing of denominational rivalry and sectarianism by 1908 was noted by the missionary-Bishop of the local Anglican community, the Right Reverend Alfred Willis ('Misa Uilisi'), who joined the Wesleyan Chairman and Free Church President, the Reverends Rodger Page ('Misa Peesi') and Jabez B. Watkin ('Misa Uatekini') respectively, in a ...
When the London Missionary Society combined with other missions to create the Council for World Mission (CWM) in 1977, the CCCS became a part of this global missionary effort as well. An ecclesial schism took place within the Samoan church in 1980, with the American Samoa district withdrawing and forming the Congregational Christian Church of ...
Peter Milne (missionary) (1834-1924) - from Scotland to New Hebrides; George Brown (1835–1917) - from England to Samoa; Shirley Waldemar Baker (1836–1903) - from England to Australia and Tonga; James Cosh (1838–1900) - from Scotland to Vanuatu; William George Lawes (1839–1907) - from England to Papua New Guinea
The first written record for Nukuʻalofa is stated in the first dedicated book for Tonga by George Vason which was published in 1810. George Vason was an English missionary from the London Missionary Society, who arrived in Tonga in 1797. George Vason wrote of their arrival that:
Shirley Waldemar Baker (1836 [1] – 16 November 1903) was a Methodist missionary in Tonga. He was the founder of the Free Church of Tonga and enjoyed significant influence during the reign of George Tupou I, who made him prime minister.