Setareki Tuilovoni - Papers, 1946-1987

PMB 1072

fonds

Canberra : Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, [19--]

441414

Microfilm : PMB 1072

microfilm reel 35 mm

Born on the island of Matuku in the Lau group, Fiji, Tuilovoni trained as a teacher in Suva in the 1930s. After teaching at the Methodist Primary School on Bau, he decided to become a Methodist minister. From 1947 to 1950 he studied in New Jersey. On his return to Fiji he was appointed Principal of the Bible School at Davuilevu and Director of the Young People's Department of the Methodist Church, a position he held until 1967. Between 1961 and 1963 he studied for a Master of Sacred Theology at the Union Theological Seminary in New York. From 1964 he held senior positions in the Fiji Methodist Church until 1978 when he moved to Sydney to serve as Associate State Secretary for the Board of Missions in the New South Wales Synod of the Uniting Church in Australia. He ended his career doing parish work in Wellington, N.S.W. and died in Sydney in 1983

The Tuilovini papers, which are a mixture of English and Fijian, were arranged by Tevita Baleiwaqa in 1987 into the following series: Reel 1: 1. Miscellaneous correspondence, 1947-75. 2. Correspondence re Ecumenism, 1961-68. 3. Academic transcript, Drew University, NJ. 4. Writings 1948-63. 5. Methodist Young People's Dept., 1951-63. 6. Correspondence and other papers re Wesley F. Pigeon and Inez Hames, 1946-50 and 1982-87
Reel 2: 7. "Church and Unity in the South Pacific", STM thesis, Union Theological Seminary, 1962. 8. Typescript sermons, 1952-83 (bulk 1969-83). 9. Church music and hymns, 1960s-1982 (bulk 1978-82). 10. Notebooks (2), 1971-72. 11. Diary, 1975
Reel 3: 12. Very detailed diary, 1982 (in Fijian). 13. Correspondence and printed materials re Setareki's time in Australia, 1979-83. 14. Devotional material for Sydney house groups (roneoed and typescript), c. 1980-82. 15. Transcripts of oral history interviews about Tuilovini conducted by Tevita Baleiwaqa, 1986. 16. "Setareki Akeai Tuivovini and the Young People's Department of the Methodist Church in Fiji (1951-1957)" by Tevita Baleiwaqa, Bachelor of Divinity Thesis, Pacific Theological College, 1987

English, Fijian

PMB (Australian National University. Pacific Manuscripts Bureau) ; 1072
Microfilm copy of original held by Pacific Theological College Library, Suva, Fiji