When did the first Lutheran missionaries come to PNG?

Trevor
11/09/2011

The first Lutheran missionaries came to the island of New Guinea in 1886, sent by German mission societies.  There were major disruptions in the German work during both World War I and World War II.  In 1921, the former Iowa Synod (a predecessor of the American Lutheran Church, now part of the ELCA) responded to a call for American missionaries in PNG, and since that time hundreds of Americans have worked alongside Australian and German missionaries as well as Papua New Guinean colleagues.

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