Poona (Pune) and Indian Village Mission (PIVM)

Welch, Ian Hamilton

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Poona (Pune) and Indian Village Mission (PIVM)

Authors

Welch, Ian Hamilton

Abstract

The Poona and Indian Village Mission (PIVM) was established in Australia by Charles Reeve, a “charismatic and autocratic”2 Tasmanian farmer and Baptist evangelist and later ordained Baptist minister, in 1893.3 It was one of the first Protestant overseas missions established in Australia by Australians and mostly staffed by Australians and New Zealanders.