Pat and Peggy Ozment who I covered on my recent trip have a blog of their own. They have put up a couple posts related to the story I was covering. They posted several of my photos and have added their own captions and insights to share their experiences.
Almost Home
My flights went well and I even arrived in DC a bit early. My mom, my brother Philip, and Trey met me at the airport. That little boy has grown in three weeks! My mom has been rubbing off on him and he is now a little chatterbox. In this photo, Trey is sporting the […]
Tommy’s Preaching Points
If you are a regular church-going Baptist you probably think a preaching point is a bullet on the pastor’s powerpoint slide. In the remote regions of Northern Ghana a preaching point is a location in a remote village where people gather together to hear God’s Word. Sometimes it is under a tree, sometimes in a […]
First Grade Reading
Peggy Ozment has been tutoring a young girl to help her learn to read. She’s in first grade and her school uses some very interesting textbooks. Peggy showed them to me and I had to put a few of my favorite pages on here. It’s pretty unreal the stuff in these books. I’m pretty sure […]
Stop! I’m Taken.
In our Western culture newly weds proudly wear a ring on a specific finger to tell the world they are married. Some of the women here make elaborate henna tatoos on their hands and feet to show that they are newly weds. Henna tatoos are temporary unless applied over and over again for long periods […]
Cobra!
This cobra was killed last night around the school house. When I came to Nalerigu this year I swore I’d always wear closed shoes at night instead of flip-flops, but that only lasted for one night. Then I got lazy. With a snake this size I don’t think he’d have any trouble biting me above […]
The Employee March
This afternoon’s 50th anniversary event was a parade through Nalerigu led by the BMC employees. The workers all wore their new BMC 50th t-shirts and ball caps. I was neat to see so many people sporting a t-shirt with my photograph plastered across the front. Drummers accompanied the crowd the entire way as they marched […]
Statue Unveiling
This morning’s main event was the unveiling of the “improved” statue of Dr. George Faile II. Dr. Faile founded the hospital in 1958 and when he died in the US in 1989, the town decided to hold a funeral of their own for him. They erected a statue of him in front of the hospital […]
Go, Tell the Story
The primary purpose of this trip was to document the Baptist Medical Centre‘s 50th anniversary celebration. However, since I was traveling with Emily Peters and going through Tamale we stopped to go with missionaries Pat and Peggy Ozment on a village outreach trip. Emily is writing a story about the new work the Ozments are […]