Contents: Beginnings p1. The Gumbowie circuit p7. Lancelot p7. Coglin p8. Yongala Wesleyan p10. Gumbowie p12. Petersburg / Peterborough p12. Gratton Hall p14. Lake Hall p15. Peterborough Parsonage p16. Chronological list of events: Peterborough Methodist 1880-1976 p21. Organisations within the Peterborough Methodist Church p34. Choir and organists p34. Sunday School p39. Band of Hope p51. Christian Endeavour p52. Young people's guilds p54. Order of Knights (O.K.'s), Comrades (M.G.C.), Junior O.K.'s, Rays p55. Order of Knights - Court Pentavalon no.48 p57. Junior Order of Knights and Esquires - Court no.194 p59. Methodist Girls Comradeship - (M.G.C. or Comrades) p60. Rays p61. Youth clubs p62. The Merrymakers p63. W.F.M.A. - Women's Foreign Missionary Auxiliary and W.A.O.M. - Women's Auxiliary for Overseas Missions p65. Women's Church Aid Society (W.C.A.) p67. Women's Fellowship p70. Men's Fellowships p72. Other fellowship groups: Prayer Meetings and Bible Study groups; Community singing; Saturday Night Fellowship; Young Adults Group, BYO Group p73-4. Sporting clubs p74. Tennis Club p74. Tennis at Peterborough West p75. Cricket Club p75. Football, basketball, badminton and table tennis p76. Girls Gymnasium Club p78. The church and community in Peterborough p79. Peterborough West p84. Amalgamation p92. Dawson Mission p95. Oodla Wirra [Penn] p102. Erskine p104. Dawson 1900-1937 p107. The North-East Mission p111. Nackara and Yunta p116. Yongala Circuit p120. Yongala p120. Yatina p125. Mannanarie p127. Terowie Circuit p129. A new era p136. St Peter's Church of England p140. More beginnings: the Uniting Church in Australia p141..