Asia-Pacific Christian Mission
Unevangelised Fields Mission : Archives of missions in Papua New Guinea and West Papua
Date: 1931-1992
From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1299
Description: Comprise UFM minutes of the Executives of Australia and New Zealand Branch, the Papua New Guinea Field Council, The Asia-Pacific Christian Mission Field Council, the Evangelical Church of Papua Missionary Affairs Committee, and the Victorian, Queensland, West Australian, South Australian and New Zealand councils. Also copies of minutes from the UFM Council of London and North America Source of title - Transcribed from item The Unevangilised Fields Mission (UFM), founded by the Worldwide Evangelization Crusade and directed by the UFM Australian and New Zealand Branch, established missions in the Fly River region of Papua New Guinea in the 1930s. After World War II further missions were set up. In 1966 the UFM missions formally constituted themselves as a national church, the Evangelical Church of Papua. In 1969 the UFM Australia and New Zealand Branch changed its name to the Asia-Pacific Christian Mission and established further missions in Irian Jaya, Indonesia and the Philippines Quantity: 34 microfilm reel(s). 0.10 Linear Metres. Finding Aids: See http://rspas.anu.edu.au/pambu/. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 2009