"Oforis' Report for the Year 1885"

One adult death during the year, quiet and faithful, and some deaths of children. Some exclusions, many of the congregation were forced to go away to find work. Several of the Kibi members were recruited as evangelists by the Mission. There had been hopes that Ata would return a Christian. He had written letters from Lagos and Accra advising some of his friends to become converts. The actual increase in the numbers of Christians in Kibi was from 475 to 709. This computation apparently includes Tumfa and Asuun. In Kibi itself there were 32 adult converts. In a two page discussion of two case studies Ofori puts quite classical evangelical language into the mouths of his converts - an old man who had been hostile previously said he had realised that it would ‘all end in a lasting sorrowful state before my judge after death. I therefore wish to be sanctified with the blood of Jesus Christ'.

04.01.1886

04.01.1886

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