About Paul

Paul Noren was born and raised in the Ubangi region of the D.R. Congo to missionary parents. His dad was from a farming background in Kansas and was also an outdoors sportsman, so Paul was introduced to planting things and spending time in the wild from his childhood on. As a kid, Paul and his Congolese friends spent much time together doing all kind of things, which included climbing trees and eating fruit of different kinds nearly every day.

Paul and Sheryl went out as missionaries to the area where he grew up in 1979, where each had done a one-year stint in 1976 and 77, before getting married. Sheryl worked in the medical field and Paul in Agricultural Development. Paul and Sheryl met Roy and Aleta Danforth in Congo at the Loko Hospital mission, working for the same project. They teamed up and have worked together introducing new species of fruit trees and doing Agroforestry Development for the past 45 years. For Paul, this work has been done in three countries over that time, D.R. Congo, Central African Republic, and Cameroon. ECHO has been a great resource during much of that time