Christianity created a Nation” is a book about the arrival of the Gospel and the early Mission Years among those islands later to be known as the Cook Islands, writes author Howard Henry. “Christianity created a Nation” is a book of many stories concerning a whole series of events following the arrival of the Gospel to Aitutaki on 26 October 1821. Some of these stories will make you laugh. Some stories will make you wonder in amazement. And some of these stories will just about make you cry. But that is all part of our history. It is what it is.