"Asante's Report on the Kibi Station during the Year 1876"

Personnel on the station now includes Cat, Tim. Mullings, and Cat. C.L. Meyer. During the year the numbers in the community had increased from 14 to 56, there were 35 communicants and 4 children, 17 non-communicants. There were 14 catechumens as he wrote the report. In the boarding school there were two teachers in addition to Meyer as housefather - Jonathan Asumen, and Jonas Oware. 44 pupils. At Kukurantumi (he gives the area of Mission Land at 18 acres) the number in the community rose from 24 to 36 with 18 communicants, 2 non-communicants, and 16 children. There were 7 catechumens as he wrote the report. There 21 were 18 pupils in the school. The two new teachers in Kibi were both Akims. Asante writes that though not so gifted as the catechists they could have achieved better results with their pupils (the two lowest classes) if they had worked more conscientiously. The movement of people into out of the community included a loss of 16 people through their moving away, and a gain of 8 by their moving to Kibi, 31 by baptism of the heathen, and 3 by baptism of children of Christian parents. The life of the community is described in generalities - the heathen sins of adultery and becoming indebted were not absent; the Christians were making farms more willingly than in the past; 2 young men were apprenticed to a carpenter in Kibi, two more were about to be went to learn locksmithery at Christiansborg. Asante and the catechists travelled between them 45 days and worked in the following towns: Apiraman, Kade, Nkwatanan, Otumi, Asuom, Baneso, Takyimamma, Tumfa, Adadentem, Pano, Tete, Sagyimase, Asiakwa, Saman, Osine, Anyinam, Mease, Anyinasin, Dwenase, Abompe, Akenkawase, Kwaben, Asafo, Akoko, Afwenease, Akurofu, Awenade, Apapam, Afiesa, Apedwa-Krobo, Nkroso and Atfiionso and Wirenkyiren.

04.01.1877

04.01.1877

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