1. Before the start -- 2. The New Guinea mission begins -- 3. The church in the Torres Strait -- 4. Beginnings in mainland New Guinea : 1872-1887 -- 5. The South Seas pastors -- 6. The first Papuan pastors -- 7. Government -- 8. Expansion of the mission -- 9. Training of leaders -- 10. Change and a Papuan church -- 11. The United Church in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands -- 12. The future