It is more than hundred years since the first coming of the Good News to the people of Sabah. The task of the Mill Hill Missionaries is almost over. Only a handful of them are still working in the Diocese. That is the way it should go. Of great importance is the emerging of a strong local Church, growing more and more in maturity. It is the finest present given to the Mill Hill Missionaries in this Centenary Year.

In a message to the Church in Sabah during the dedication of the Sacred Heart Cathedral in 1981, this was what the Mill Hill missionaries had to say:-

"We (the Mill Hill Missionaries) wish to congratulate you all, dear friends, and we hope and pray that yet many more among you realise and believe that God wants to pay the compliment of being His Collaborators to you also. We hope that then many more will dare to accept this beautiful task and responsibility of being priests, brothers or sisters, of being dedicated laymen, accepting the call to be men for others, following so Jesus Christ. Then no doubt the local Church in Sabah will be a blessing for the people of Sabah and for the people of Asia."

To the Mill Hill Missionaries, we the people of Sabah have this to say,

"Thank you for bringing the Light of Jesus Christ to this corner of the World!"