The Rev. Fran�ois Kara Akoa-Mongo was born and grew up in Cameroon. He is the seventh child of ten born from his father, the Rev. Fran�ois Akoa Ab�m�, and his mother, Dj�m� Ess�mba Suzanne. He is an ordained minister of the Presbyterian Church of Cameroon, the church he served in many qualities for many years. He taught Social Studies, and Foreign Languages ( French, Spanish, and Latin) at Washington Academy and Narraguagus High School. He also taught some classes as an Adjunct at the University of Maine at Machias. He and his wife Kathy have raised their 9 children, who live in New England. He holds the Master of Divinity, the Master of Teaching Foreign Languages, and a… Doctor of Education in Social Studies.He will soon publish soon, his 150 sermons preached at Machiasport, Maine, a book of Meditation in French for married Christian couples, and a Christian Hymnbook translated into his mother's Cameroonian dialect.