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John Williams arrived in Samoa in 1830, among his crew, a Samoan couple, Fauea and his wife Puaseisei, who joined them on their voyage and proved pivotal in the mission in Samoa.
John Williams, or Ioane Viliamu as he is known to Samoans, the London Missionary Society (L.M.S.) martyr largely credited with introducing Christianity to Samoa and evangelising the Pacific, was honoured in June, his birthday month.
Jun 10, 2009 · Williams spent only about a month in Samoa in these first two visits, and Malietoa, although he embraced Christianity in 1832, lived in ways that debarred him from church membership and angered some of the resident missionaries.
IN 1830, JOHN WILLIAMS OF THE LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY (LMS) ARRIVED IN. Samoa IN his schooner, the missionary vessel Messenger of Peace, also known as the Olive Branch, the building of which he had undertaken and supervised at his station in Rarotonga.
May 20, 2020 · John Williams (27 June 1796 – 20 November 1839) served with the London Missionary Society in the South Pacific. In order to expand his work to the Samoa and the Society Islands he build a missionary Ship – The Messenger of Peace – at Rarotonga.
Williams and his wife Mary arrived in Tahiti in 1817. Based in Raiatea (Tahiti), the Cook Islands, and later Samoa, he built and sailed ships to transport Polynesian Christians as teachers and missionaries across the Pacific.
John Williams (accompanied by Charles Barff) was the first white missionary to come to the Samoan Islands. In 1830 he left eight trained native teachers from the Society Islands to work among the people of two chiefs of the island of Savaii. One of these chiefs, named Malietoa, soon renounced heathenism and adopted Christianity, having experi
