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==Writing for Records== | |||
Contact mission headquarters to find addresses for the individual churches:<br> | |||
Cook Islands Mission<br> | |||
Street Address: Titikaveka, Rarotonga, Cook Islands<br> | |||
Mail: P.O. Box 31, Rarotonga, Cook Islands<br> | |||
Phone: 682-22-851<br> | |||
Fax: 682-22-852<br> | |||
Email: office@adventist.org.ck<br> | |||
==Historical Background== | ==Historical Background== | ||
John Tay, an American, was the first Seventh-day Adventist to visit the Cook Islands. During his visit in 1886 Tay sold Adventist literature to the people there. Another missionary voyage to the Pitcairn Islands provided a second opportunity to sell literature and offer medical services to the Cook Islanders. Dr Joseph Caldwell and his wife Julia accepted a request to stay on the island as permanent doctor. Julia, a schoolteacher, opened an English-language school. Along with them remained Dudley and Sarah Owen and Maud Young, a Pitcairner who came as a student nurse. The five Adventists worshipped regularly with the London Missionary Society believers in their church in Avarua. The services were conducted in English, but many islanders attended as well.<ref>Wikipedia contributors, "South Pacific Division of Seventh-day Adventists", in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Pacific_Division_of_Seventh-day_Adventists, accessed 20 February 2020.</ref> | John Tay, an American, was the first Seventh-day Adventist to visit the Cook Islands. During his visit in 1886 Tay sold Adventist literature to the people there. Another missionary voyage to the Pitcairn Islands provided a second opportunity to sell literature and offer medical services to the Cook Islanders. Dr Joseph Caldwell and his wife Julia accepted a request to stay on the island as permanent doctor. Julia, a schoolteacher, opened an English-language school. Along with them remained Dudley and Sarah Owen and Maud Young, a Pitcairner who came as a student nurse. The five Adventists worshipped regularly with the London Missionary Society believers in their church in Avarua. The services were conducted in English, but many islanders attended as well.<ref>Wikipedia contributors, "South Pacific Division of Seventh-day Adventists", in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Pacific_Division_of_Seventh-day_Adventists, accessed 20 February 2020.</ref> | ||