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Part of this report is printed as an appendix to the 1890 Annual Report (pp83ff). Additional material: In Mpraeso, where preaching has been like pouring water on the rocks, there were 4 adults and 3 children baptised in June. In the Abetifi baptism…

Gives the monthly expenditure for chop money as £1=8=0 (=35 Francs) - divided among 20 of the 25 boys in the Boarding School. Discussing the work in the school, Tschopp is most satisfied with the learning of biblical texts and hymns. Arithmetic has…

Without further remark Tschopp reports meeting two Mohammedans when he was en route for Peteko. The plant used to stun the fish in the Afram is carried there 'in loads' when it is needed. In Pepease there had been a fire which had destroyed the roofs…

By the end of the year the numbers in the Boarding part of the school are 18 - and there were 21 day boys. (This is a considerable change from earlier when the numbers of day boys were usually c. 7) Discusses briefly the difficulty they have because…

A happy year - the total of the community in Kwahu stands at 219. Abetifi - Personnel - the Weber family arrived in the course of the year. The 22 Abetifi Christians baptised in July included several older people, and several wives of previously…

Arbeitskreis der Schweizer Kirchen zu Südkorea. Darin: - Protokolle und Unterlagen - Informationsbriefe des EMS (Evangelisches Missionrk in Südwestdeutschland) - Korrespondenzen von P. Gessler und H.W. Huppenbauer.

Report on a journey to Nkonya. En route preaching in the Boso area - a rare case of opposition in that when they went to preach in To there were few people there, and these people mocked them, so they had to leave. The Abo was swollen and they heard…

The report is printed in a German translation in Heidenbote 1890 p 19 ff. The English version includes some description of obsequy customs in Nkonya.

Describing difficulties in the community. The family of one Odee had moved back into the town and totally given themselves back to heathenism (bought a sheep to sacrifice to the fetish, worked on their farms on Sundays, put amulets on a sick child).…
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