This is the fifth and final chapter to discuss the workings of the colonial missions of the various Christian churches which operated throughout the British empire. In the course of this section, we have examined two rather different types of society. The first kind was the centrally managed church organisation, such as the Anglican SPG and the Methodist WMMS. Catholic missions were also centrally managed through the joint efforts of Propaganda in Rome, the Catholic hierarchy and the APF (the French-based missionary auxiliary). These organisations were closely associated with their respective churches; they were generally dominated by high-ranking clergy, submitted annual reports to a central organisation which managed the colonial mission as part of a coordinated programme of missionary, welfare, educational and other activities that defined the church. Secondly, there were the voluntary associations; these often included laypeople in their management; they were independent of the churches and sometimes they worked cooperatively to assist the activities of a number of closely related sects. The template for voluntary associations of this kind was the London Missionary Society, which was originally interdenominational though it later came to be dominated by the Congregationalists. In the course of the nineteenth century, those colonial missionary societies which survived tended to lose their independent character and be drawn into the central administrative structure of their associated churches.