Rebuilding
the Churches on Tobi & Helen Reef
 Mount Carmel Church Tobi Island |
 Resurrection Church Helen Reef |
Plans call for raising $44,000 over three years
to rebuild both
churches. The community must raise $14,666.66 each year
through fishing, allotments, and donations from interested people.
Proposed
Fundraising Plan for Tobi & Helen Churches
How you can help—
Mt. Carmel Church
c/o Wayne Andrew
P.O. Box 1432
Koror, Palau 96940
For more information on this project, contact
Wayne Andrew
Acting Fundraising Chair
Helen Resurrection and Mount Carmel Church
P.O. Box 1432
Koror, Palau 96940
More information about religion
on Tobi—
1905 H. Seidel. Über
Religion und Sprache der Tobiinsulaner. Globus 87: 14-17.
Title translates as "On the Religion and Speech of the Tobi Islanders."
In German.
1978 Peter W. Black. The
Teachings of Father Marino: Aspects of Tobian Catholicism.
In Mission, Church and Sect in Oceania. James Boutilier, Daniel Hughes and Sharon
Tiffany, eds.
Pp. 307-354. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
The missionary who converted most people
on Tobi to Roman Catholicism is misidentified here as Fr. Marino when in fact
he was Fr. Elias Fernandez.
Errata sheet attached.
1991 F. Hezel. The
Catholic Church in Palau. In The Catholic Church in Micronesia: Historical
Essays
on the Catholic Church in the Caroline-Marshall Islands. Chicago: Loyola University
Press. Contains
dates and names of early missionaries and their work. Helen Reef Church founded
in April 1975.
1994 Peter W. Black. The
Domestication of Catholicism on Tobi. Pacific Studies 17:1-28.
A revised version of the conversion story, taking some account of published
missionary accounts.
The Lord's Prayer in Tobian and English by Soty Patris.
Updated:
March 13, 2005