Story: Missions and missionaries

More links and websites

• Marist Studies Wiki: Letters of French Catholic Missionaries in the Pacific 1836–1854

  A website with English translations of letters written in French by the first Catholic missionaries to New Zealand.

• Methodist Church History OnLine

  The home page of the Wesley Historical Society (New Zealand), with downloadable resources about the early Methodist missionaries to New Zealand.

• New Zealand Church Missionary Society

  The New Zealand Church Missionary Society sends missionaries around the world.

More suggestions and sources

• Davidson, Alan, Stuart Lange, Peter Lineham and Adrienne Puckney, eds. Te Rongopai 1814 'Takoto te pai!': Bicentenary reflections on Christian beginnings and developments in Aotearoa New Zealand. Auckland: General Synod Office of Anglican Church in Aotearoa New Zealand, 2014.

• Greiler, Alois, ed. Catholic beginnings in Oceania: Marist missionary perspectives. Hindmarsh, South Australia: ATF Press, 2009.

• Morrison, Hugh. Pushing boundaries: New Zealand Protestants and overseas missions 1827–1939. Dunedin: Otago University Press, 2016.

• Newman, Keith. Bible & treaty: missionaries among the Maori – a new perspective. Auckland: Penguin, 2010.

• Owens, J. M. R. Prophets in the wilderness: the Wesleyan mission to New Zealand 1819–27. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1974.

• Ward, Kevin, and Brian Stanley, eds. The Church Missionary Society and world Christianity 1799–1999. Cambridge: W. B. Eerdmans; Richmond [England]: Curzon, 2000.

• Yates, Timothy. The conversion of the Māori: years of religious and social change, 1814–1842. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2013.