This paper is based largely on notes of conversations in June 1968 when I spent time at the Methodist headquarters at Sibu and accompanied a Methodist missionary to the longhouses with Christian inhabitants along the Baleh river. That visit was intended to gain an understanding of the differences and commonalties of the Methodist and Anglican missions to complement my research on Iban Anglicans (Varney 1968, 1969, 2010a). In 2010 I again visited Sibu. I talked with Ibans preparing for Methodist ministry and with the staff of the Methodist Theological School (MTS) and was encouraged to make my record of Methodist work, as I found it in 1968, more widely available. Its inclusion here as a Research Note shows that material based on interviews over 40 years ago can illuminate understanding of the recent rapid advance of Christianity in Sarawak and of the wider context of contemporary Iban society. The paper begins by introducing the work of Christian missions with the Iban in Sarawak since 1848. The picture that emerges is consistent; some Iban were baptized but most were satisfied with their own religion and resisted the idea that there might be something better. The history of Methodist work includes the response to the baptisms of Temenggong1 Koh and other Iban leaders in 1949, 1949, which came as `astonishing news' to Malcolm MacDonald, then Commissioner-General in South-East Asia (MacDonald 1956:199). The paper describes the position of Iban Christians in 1968, just five years after the creation of Malaysia, with the establishment of the Sarawak Iban Annual Conference (SIAC) with The Rev. Joshua Bunsu as its President. In the same year the Anglican church had its first local, and Iban, bishop. These were important factors for the future development of Christianity in Sarawak.