Grand Central | The Ziegelbaurs

Sometimes our home in Yaounde feels like Grand Central Station! And we love it.

Central African friend Sylvain registers for a leadership seminar to be held in Yaounde later this year.

Within the walls of our compound is not only our house but a duples: one side serves as a guest house, the other is for storage. So when missionary and African friends we’ve known in Congo or Central African Republic are passing through the big city, we host them, we store stuff for them, we help them get to and from the international airport, and hold mail for those who have a Yaounde mailing address but don’t live in Yaounde.

Central African friends loading a truck with supplies we'd been storing for them

Recently we hosted missionary friends who were in town from Congo and Central African Republic. We stored supplies that had been purchased here for the ministry in Central African Republic until our pastor friend was able to come pick them up. And currently we’re holding on to a very heavy suitcase of seminary books for a Congolese pastor who has been studying in Yaounde. When there’s an opportunity to send them (all or in part) to Congo, we’ll make that connection for him.

Anytime a truck leaves Yaounde we fill it to the max

The logistical assistance we give is not exactly in our job description, and may not seem like ministry. But the support we give others enables them to carry out their God-given tasks. It is a priviledge to serve our missionary and African colleagues and friends. So we don’t really mind if, at times, our home feels like Grand Central Station.

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