Rainy season is in full swing and that means the insect population is booming. It also means that thousands of large bats have returned to our hospital campus to feed. Why so many bats in one place? Deforestation is a huge issue in northern Ghana and the Baptist Medical Centre has not allowed its trees […]
A Visit to Togo
This past week we drove all the way down to the coast of Benin by passing through Togo. We fell in love with the beauty of Togo’s northern region. The mountains are beautiful and the government has been serious about reforestation efforts (something greatly lacking in Ghana). In Togo, we swung by to visit Everette, […]
An Easter Hike at Nakpanduri
On the day of Denise’s Easter Egg hunt we went a bit earlier and took some of our hospital volunteers on a hike to see the escarpment. It’s still pretty dry and brown but Nakpanduri has had a couple showers so the green is starting to appear.
Denice’s 2017 Annual Easter Egg Hunt
Once again, our dear friend Denise held her annual Easter Egg hunt at her residence in Nakpanduri. This year we had quite a crowd with all the volunteers that were at BMC. The kids split up by age and KJ joined the Cahill girls in the tree nursery to hunt for eggs. After the hunt […]
Goodbye, Dr. David & Laurel Fort!
Dr. Fort and his family are legendary in Nalerigu. They were here for over a decade in the 80s & 90s and Dr. Fort served as a surgeon at BMC. Many locals tell me he could speak Mampruli better than any other Western. After Nalerigu, they moved into another role with our organization and it […]
Heidi’s Easter Egg Scavenger Hunt
It’s become a tradition in recent years for Heidi to setup a scavenger hunt in & around the house for Trey. This year she included KJ and their grand prize for finishing was a chocolate bunny. KJ was quite fond of the chocolate bunny.
Shoe Distribution in Kolinvaai
When the first Pinecrest Team came out from Cordele, GA and worked with the children of Kolinvaai, the student body leader pleaded for two things: footballs and new shoes. The second Pinecrest group brought them footballs and this week I delivered over 600 shoes to the school. While Pinecrest provided the funds for the shoes, they were […]
Mampruli Dictionary – First Edition Published
Thanks to Tony Naden (and dozens of other contributors), the first edition of the Mampruli-English Dictionary has been officially published. It comes in at over 1000 pages and has hundreds of illustrative photos. Most entries have useful sample phrases often taken from the Mampruli Bible and traditional Mampruli proverbs. This has really been a labor of […]
Women’s StoryTogether Project
Last year, a colleague in Burkina Faso started launched a Lottie Moon Project (it’s like Kickstarter for IMB) with the goal of raising $30,710 to train women to train women to share God’s stories. Wait what? Train to train to…? Well, you teach someone Bible stories but how much better is it to teach them […]