"Asante's Report for the Third Quarter of 1876"

4 women have newly come forward into the catechumenate. The other catechumens are receiving almost daily instruction. Asante is running a night school (in addition to earlier instituted Sunday school), in the former many members and catechumens have learned to read. Several heathen young men who do not intend to be baptised have also started attending the night school. The members of the community themselves asked for this night school after Asante had several times himself attempted something of the kind and failed. They have made a law among themselves to punish anyone absent without good reason with a fine. Asante writes that this is not evangelical practice but still necessary in Akim. A catechist appointed to Kibi in the middle of the year, Samuel Gyima, is a Kibi man and had to be suspended almost on arrival for having committed adultery in Akropong. He repeats a request for a diacon to assist him in Kibi. If this request were granted he would transfer Mullings to Asiakwa and start the chain of outstations he wants to create between Akim and Kwahu, though he adds in passing, that he should think also about the North and North West of Akim -the bulk of the schoolboys from outside Kibi and Kukurantumi come from this area and all the baptised school boys are from Kwaman. A path goes from Kibi to Kwahu via Kwaman but it is not as direct as the other path.

11.10.1876

11.10.1876

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