This summer Joe and Deborah Troester, ELCA missionaries in Baboua, Central African Republic, will be in the US visiting congregations and community gatherings. They will be giving presentations on their work in the CAR. If you would like them to visit your church, please send an e-mail to josephtroester@earthlink.net

Two children carrying water in cooking pots up the steep slope from the Kanga spring in Baboua, CAR.
Joe serves as technical advisor for PASE, which provides clean drinking water and promotes good hygiene and sanitation to villagers. Pastor Deborah teaches at the Theological School in Baboua. Their daughter, Christa, is in the 8th grade at Rain Forest International School in Yaounde, Cameroon.