# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1958_S133
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

Lutheran Synodical Conference, 1958 138

c) Permanent roof, boys’ house, Obot Idim (pan roof needed to save
present house since walls are of semipermanent construction)

a) Extension duplex, Ibakachi (needed to give extra space — present
building lacks store room and car space)

e) Outside office, Abia Okpo (necessary since the house has only
one bedroom and other room is used as office; extra space is
needed)

f) Warehouse, Obot Idim (additional space needed for missionaries’
goods while home on furlough) :

g) Deep well at Obot Idim to serve 250 students and eight families.

7. Maintenance — $12,000, By government order all compounds

must be kept in good order. Each compound consists of some five to.
ten acres, thus requiring services of house boys and laborers. :

8. Seminary Operations — $2,950. The African church cannot assume
the entire cost of operating our seminary, and it is, therefore, necessary
that we pay for a portion of the food, tuition, etc.

9, Ogoja Province Expansion — $7,500. We now have three Ameri-
can workers in this new mission field where the Lord is blessing our
work in a most heartening manner. One of our missionaries lives in
a bush house; another in a home of prefab construction. It is believed,
however, that residences of permanent construction will in the long
run prove more practical and economical.

10. Ghana Expansion — $2,000. Superintendent William H. Schweppe
recently returned from a trip to Ghana, where he conferred with Pastor
Assante. Opportunities in this new field appear to be most encouraging.

11. Automobiles — $10,000. Because of the bad roads in Africa, the
wear and tear on our cars is tremendous. This item embraces the cost
of new autos for four missionaries who will return in 1959, plus the
replacement of old motors which will wear out during the coming year.

12. Automotive Expense — $15,000. There are presently 22 cars in
operation on our African mission fields. Most of these are the German
Volkswagen, which seem to provide economical transportation. The
budget item covers the cost of petrol, oil, spare parts, and necessary
repairs.

13. Equipment — $5,000. It will be necessary to purchase new refrig-
erators to replace some now on the field which because of age have
become useless.

14, Equipment and Rehabilitation Grants — $7,000. Each missionary
must equip himself and his family with proper clothing for use in the
tropics. Upon the return to the United States this clothing must be
replaced for two reasons:

1) The extreme moisture in the tropics has caused the old clothing

to become fully deteriorated.

2) Warmer garments are required in this country.

15. Local Leave — $1,500. Each missionary receives a vacation of
four weeks each year in our rest house at Jos, Nigeria. This home is
located in the highlands, where cooler temperatures prevail. Such rest
periods are absolutely essential because eleven months of work in the
lowlands cause our missionaries to become enervated.

16. Medical Expense. ~ $1,000. The Missionary Board assumes cer-

tain portions of medical and dental care required by missionaries and
their families because of their work in the tropics.

17. Education of Missionaries’ Children — $1,500. A full-time lady
teacher is presently preparing to leave for Africa to instruct the chil-
dren of our missionaries whose ages range from 5 to 13 years, thus’
embracing the entire eight grades of elementary schooling.