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[Excerpt from 'Flensborg Avis']

[Excerpt from 'Deutsche Kolonialzeitung'] Expedition report

[Mixed] Agenda with five items. Point 2) Report on the situation of the Mission in India and East Africa

[Minutes] Agenda with five items. Punt 2) Report on the situation of the Mission in India and East Africa

Finances] Bill for clothing for Missionary Jessen and Missionssenior Pohl in the amount of 353.10 Mark

Finances] Account for African clothing in the amount of 50.60 Marks

Finances] Bill for a pair of glasses with replacement lenses of 32.00 Marks

[Finance] Bill for a hair clipper worth 10 marks

Finance] Invoice for household goods worth 179.35 Marks

Finances] Six wooden cases worth 48 marks.

Finances] Account of a cabin suitcase and two locks worth 33.50 Marks

Personalakte Peter Jessen] Jessen with an essay which was also printed in the Schleswig-Holsteinisches Missionsblatt (March 1913, pp. 39 to 44): Jessen reports on the decision where the second Breklum mission station is to be built. Udjidji or Kigoma? Since the railway, after its completion, will probably end in Kigoma, the missionaries have agreed on Kigoma with the agreement of the board. Report about the safari from Andersen and Jessen to Kigoma. Encounters with chieftains and healers, new country roads and old swamps, repopulation of Kigoma: the city emerges on a drawing board and plans, among other things, a European quarter. The Africans who currently live there will have to resettle. Jessen and Andersen choose a hill in Kigoma and mark their planned building with a stone pile (see also postcard!). Reports about hunting and animism. Note that some Catholic missions are also very interested in Kigoma and are also planning their settlements. On the return journey visit to a 'Sultan' who shows the missionaries photographs already taken by other travellers. Andersen must promise to send him a picture, too. The finding that existing land registries are very inaccurate. Return to Kigoma on 22 December.

Pastor Harmsen (Flemhude) explains the entanglements concerning the Africa mission: The question cards were a personal action of Pastor Bahnsen (pro-Africa) to certain mission friends, the essay of Pastor Bracker (contra-Africa) was also a personal expression of opinion. Harmsen weighs both positions carefully, but decides in favour of 'Yes, we want India AND Africa!

[excerpt from 'Palmblätter aus der Mission'] Description of the 'Islam danger' and the question whether Breklum should become active in Africa

[Miscellaneous] Health certificate for Marie Madsen, mission bride and future wife of Walter Bock, issued by the royal district physician, Flensburg

Protocols] VII Entry of the African Brothers into the Pension, Widow's and Orphan's Fund

Minutes] Minutes of the discussion on the inclusion of a new field of work in Africa

What do we know about our missionaries in Africa?

[Minutes] Agenda with 10 items. Point 10) Acceptance of a new field of work in Africa

Minutes] Item 10) The adoption of a new field of work in Africa shall be forwarded to the General Assembly for voting.

Minutes] Agenda with 17 items, Item 15) New field of work in Africa

[Minutes] Agenda; II Africa A) Applications Bock: 1) Determination of salary. 2) Disease accounts. 3) Dentist's bill (113 Rp). 4) Do the missionaries have free medical treatment? 5) A religious story. 6) Wages of the sponsors. 7) School building in Neu-Breklum. 8) Send books to B) Nicolai Andersen: 1) Future of Andersen. 2) Salary (child benefit). 3) Application: 100 Rp for the stay in Kigoma. 4) Order of tools. C) Peter Jessen: 1) Salary. 2) Worship place in Kigoma. 3) Well in Kigoma (minimum 200 Rp); whether one of the new brothers should learn drilling and be equipped with drilling equipment? Dowsing rod? 4) Library (perhaps the interest of 500 marks). 5) August Conference in Dar es Salaam.

[Miscellaneous] Agenda, item 6) Assignment of our African mission area to the Neukirchner Mission.

[Miscellaneous] Agenda with seven items Item 6) New field of work

[Miscellaneous] Agenda with seven items. Point 5) Annual report for home, India and Africa

Brochures] Detailed discussion of the reasons for and against a new mission undertaking. Confidential.

[Protocols] 2d) Return to Africa, it seems very unlikely

Minutes] Item 6) 'The decision of the Further Board to cede our mission areas in East Africa to the Neukirchner Mission will be submitted to the General Assembly for approval. The General Assembly regrets this decision with the further and narrower Board, but because our forces are not sufficient for three mission fields and Africa was our youngest area and Neukirchen is doing good work, Neukirchen is also a German mission, it joins with a good conscience, except one voice (Kahlke, Hamburg).'.

Minutes] Item 7) 'Missionssenior Pohl and Pastor Lucht are asked to represent our Mission Society at the Edinburgh Conference; the costs will be borne by the Mission Fund'.

Minutes] Item 4) Report on the German East African Conference in Dar es Salaam. Encouragement by Leipziger, Berliner, Bielefelder, Brüdergemeine and C.M.S., Breklum may also become active in D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a ; Point 5) Board decides after detailed examination that not North Cameroon, but D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a will be chosen as new mission area (area enclosed by the Malagarassi River). Missionary N. Andersen is to be recruited and the training of the missionaries Bock and Jessen is to be continued.

Point 4) Pastor Felix Paulsen, who was actually trained for East Africa, makes himself available for the China Mission (after it became clear at the Leipzig Conference that East Africa will probably no longer be open for the Breklumers). By the end of the year, the Executive Board wants to inform him in which region (Africa or China) he will be deployed.

Minutes] Item 11) 'It is the first time that a new field of work is being considered in Africa and it is decided to submit the question to the further executive committee in the near future'.

Minutes] Item 2) Financing of the training of the future African missionaries Bock and Jessen. Mission inspector Pohl is assigned to take care of the expedition equipment of the two.

[Minutes] Item 19) Peter Jessen asks for pictures from Africa

10) The D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i kanische Gesellschaft is instructed to transfer 3000 rupees per month to its troubled brother Jessen. Settlement takes place in Hamburg.

5) The plans for East Africa are postponed until Pastor Bracker gets to know the conditions there. 6) The Board asks Pastor Bracker to return home from his trip to India and not to travel on to Africa.7) The Basel Mission's question as to whether the Breklumers might not want to become active in Cameroon is answered in the negative because the Breklumers' plans for East Africa are already too far advanced. 8) The grant to the committee of the Continental Mission is increased from 20 to 40 Marks. 9) If at all possible, 5000 Marks should be made available in the course of the next accounting year for the East Africa Mission.

1) The messages from the siblings in Africa are read. In it, the urgent plea for money.

Minutes] Item 4) Missionary Jessen was asked by the Danish Church Mission whether he would like to return to missionary ministry. He is released from the Breklum Mission and his activity as pastor of the church in Rinkenis.

Minutes] Item 23) A new territory in China shall only be included in the replacement for the East African territory.

[Minutes] Item 19) 'Missionary Bock, who cannot be used in the church and is in great need of rest, is sent to Rome to recover as much as possible. We must then continue to see how he can be helped.'