Mark Harris, like his father Edward Daniel Harris, served as a missionary in New Zealand-from 1954 to 1956. Mark considers it his good fortune to have lived in some of the same areas of New Zealand as did his father some thirty-five years earlier. Transcribing and editing his father's four missionary journals was a growing experience for him. As he studied his father's travels as revealed in his daily journal entries, Mark gained a new appreciation for his father: for his sacrifice, integrity, honesty, common sense, fairness and good works and above all, for setting an example of behavior and