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Article: A viewpoint from migrant churches on "two hundred years of mission."(Mission at the Crossroads)
- Article from:
- International Review of Mission
- Article date:
- April 1, 1998
- Author:
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The Dutch missionary movement was started in the year 1797 - the year in which the group known as the Netherlands Missionary Society (NZG) was founded. This is quite astonishing for me, as a Moluccan, because for us, the missionary movement began with the arrival of Europeans - the Portuguese - in 1511. Dutch missionary work began in 1605 with the arrival in the Moluccas of the Dutch, known as Hollanders at that time. I shall be curious to see whether the year 2005 will be celebrated as marking four centuries of Dutch missionary work in the East, and whether the Moluccans in the Netherlands will celebrate this happy fact, or even whether there is still the same level of ...