ABSTRACT
This chapter explores a distinctive moral conundrum facing missionaries, that of representing God's will without conflating it with one's own, by listening in on an indigenous Papua New Guinean missionary's retrospective on his career. Diyos Wapnok worked for many years among the Asabano and founded a bible college at Duranmin, Sandaun Province. A member of the first cohort of Telefolmin people to receive a mission education, Diyos responded to a vocation and undertook his own mission among the Asabano at Duranmin, across a mountain range from his home. The core dynamic of missionary Christianity is 'metacultural', or similarly manifested in the work of evangelists regardless of their cultural backgrounds. In 1958, Doull and fellow Australian Baptist Missionary Society (ABMS) missionary Doug Vaughan began a boys' bible school, with the teenage Diyos among the first class. Diyos handled the difficulty, which is inherent in missionary positionality, with skill and humility.
