What is the Gamboula Garden of Eden?

      Here is a short video that tries to explain in short, why there is a garden of Eden at Gamboula. What is there, and why it is needed. Due to having to leave shortly after filming a few of these clips, I was not able to get as much quality video as I wanted, but I think what I do have will give a good idea.

Living in Cameroon

Timothy on the ferry headed to Cameroon 

     On Palm Sunday, the missionaries at Gamboula felt it was no longer safe to stay in CAR due to the unrest. We loaded our few belongings into several trucks and crossed the border into Cameroon.   We chose a more remote border crossing, but since they didn't normally handle much traffic, the crossing took longer than we had expected. Eventually we got across and drove to the Eastern Cameroonian town of Baturi. The plan was to wait there and if things in CAR calmed down we could easily return.  After a few days we felt it was better to wait things out in Yaounde. 

      As of right now I am staying with some great friends I knew from Congo and getting to know the large missionary community here in Yaoundé.

      At this point I don’t know when I will be able to return to the Central African Republic. The country still needs to set up a recognized government and there has to be some level of governing authority in the countryside. Right now, the plan is to stay here until I can return whenever that may be.

      Although I don’t know the length of my stay, or even if I will stay in Yaounde for the whole time, there are many possibilities.

      Rainforest International School (RFIS) is here in Yaounde. It has an amazing campus with many trees and plants that Roy Danforth, who I was working with in CAR, has planted. The campus is two years old, and there is still a lot of landscaping that needs to happen. The buildings are all there but there are trees that need to be taken care of, weeds to pull, and ground to protect from the torrential African rains. I am staying at one of the missionary hostels and can try to help out with as much as I can.

       Cameroon’s national language is French and although I understand French, I do not speak it well, so this is an opportunity to improve my language skills as well. I will be in communication with people who work in and around the city on a variety of projects that I might be able to get involved with.