Melanesian Mission
The Melanesian Mission is an Anglican missionary agency supporting the work of local Anglican churches in Melanesia. It was established to purchase the ship Southern Cross. Today it continues to provide financial and staffing support for the Church of the Province of Melanesia, an independent province of the Anglican Communion. Its headquarters are in Feniton, Devon.
References
- Historical resources on Anglicanism in Oceania including material on the Melanesian Mission, from Project Canterbury
- The History of the Melanesian Mission, by E. S. Armstrong (1900)
- God's Gentlemen: A History of the Melanesian Mission 1849-1942, by David Hilliard