When Dame Frances Dove founded Wycombe Abbey she established a charity link with the Melanesian Mission in the South Pacific. The Mission was founded to spread the Christian message to this remote corner of the world, and very gradually the Pacific Islands of Melanesia became Christian with their own, indigenous style of life and worship.

It was decided this year to reinvigorate Wycombe's links with Melanesia to explore whether we could develop two way involvement with the work in the region.