{"id":618,"date":"2011-02-02T03:25:25","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T08:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ziegelbaur\/?p=618"},"modified":"2011-02-02T03:31:23","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T08:31:23","slug":"618","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ziegelbaur\/?p=618","title":{"rendered":"Plans For New Hostel in the Works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2011\/02\/Mark-P-drawing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-620\" title=\"Mark P drawing\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2011\/02\/Mark-P-drawing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"365\" height=\"317\" \/><\/a>We appreciated a visit from Mark Post of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.postassociates.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Post Associates Architects, Inc.<\/a>\u00a0last week.\u00a0 Mark who is a long time member of our home church in Grand Rapids, helped us think through possibilities for building a new hostel and housing for missionary staff on our joint Covenant \/ Free Church property which is adjacent to the RFIS property.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_619\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-619\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2011\/02\/Mark-P-builder.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-619\" title=\"Mark P builder\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2011\/02\/Mark-P-builder.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"367\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-619\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ron, Ivo, Mark, Paul look at plans for Baptist (CMF) Hostel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There are three hostels for students of RFIS whose parents are serving as missionaries outside of Yaounde.\u00a0 Now that the Rain Forest International School has moved to a new location the hostel parents are doing a lot more driving to drop off and pick up their kids.\u00a0\u00a0The Baptist missionaries\u00a0have begun\u00a0building a new (CMF)\u00a0hostel.\u00a0 Missionaries with Assemblies of God\u00a0have completed one house and are working on a second.\u00a0 So far, we are still in the planning stages and Mark is helping us through that process.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_621\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-621\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2011\/02\/Mark-P-property.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-621\" title=\"Mark P property\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2011\/02\/Mark-P-property.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"367\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-621\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul Noren and Mark walk the property<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ron and Paul Noren gave Mark a walking tour of the property, looking at the terrain, talking about which trees might be spared. \u00a0Then Mark was able to visit the current UBAC* Hostel (that\u2019s \u201cours\u201d) and other houses to see how homes here\u00a0are different from those in the US.\u00a0 Ron and Paul showed him construction\u00a0of the Baptist (CMF)\u00a0hostel,\u00a0 and he was able to talk\u00a0to Ivo\u00a0the Cameroonian construction foreman a bit.\u00a0 He then sat down for a couple days to draw up plans and options for us to consider.\u00a0 The next steps involve counting the cost and finding funding.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_622\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-622\" style=\"width: 389px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2011\/02\/Mark-P-primates.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-622\" title=\"Mark P primates\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2011\/02\/Mark-P-primates.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"389\" height=\"292\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-622\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Primate Sanctuary - Yaounde, Cameroon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And to give Mark the chance to see a different side of Africa, one afternoon Ron and Paul took him out for a drive outside the city, to a Primate Sanctuary, run by British women, where they got to see various gorillas and monkeys.\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;It was just like being in Jarassic Park!&#8221;\u00a0Ron said of the\u00a0forest surrounded by electric fences. \u00a0Their Cameroonian guide was thrilled to discover that Paul knew so much about the trees, so he gave them a special tour of the forest in order to learn the names of trees there.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Mark for his expert assistance and sacrificial service.\u00a0 Thanks to those of you who prayed for him during his trip.\u00a0 Stay tuned for updates as the process continues, and for \u00a0opportunities to be involved in seeing the dream of a new hostel and staff housing adjacent to RFIS property become a reality.<\/p>\n<p>*UBAC Hostel\u00a0opened in\u00a0Yaounde when Covenant and Free Church (Reach Global) missionaries evacuated from Zaire (Democratic Republic of Congo) in 1997.\u00a0 Moving on to ministry elsewhere in Africa, they brought their children who&#8217;d been attending Ubangi Academy (UBAC) in Karawa, Zaire to begin attending RFIS.\u00a0 Those students were housed together\u00a0in\u00a0one hostel that\u00a0they named &#8220;UBAC Hostel&#8221;\u00a0in honor of\u00a0their former school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ziegelbaur?moderation_action=report_form&object_type=post&object_id=618&width=250&height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We appreciated a visit from Mark Post of Post Associates Architects, Inc.\u00a0last week.\u00a0 Mark who is a long time member of our home church in Grand Rapids, helped us think through possibilities for building a new hostel and housing for missionary staff on our joint Covenant \/ Free Church property which is adjacent to the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[349],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ministry-activities"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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