After attending church in the village of Namangu#2, the pastor took us over to his house to show the kids his pigeons. I was prepared for the number of birds that he had! An entire side of his courtyard was full of rooms for the birds and there were hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of […]
Dry Season Gardening
It seems a bit counterintuitive, but some of our best, locally-grown veggies only show up at market in the dry season. You’d think they’d be abundant in the rainy season but too much sporadic rain during and a multitude of pests make gardening difficult. Farmers are also more focused on ploughing, sowing, and weeding their main […]
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 […]
South Africa Safari
I just got back from a two week trip to South Africa to work on a media project about Africa’s rapid urbanization. After the coverage was wrapped up, my team took a day trip to Pilanesberg National Park to go on safari. I was there in early 2015 but was happy to go back and see […]
2016 Christmas Church Service in Kolinvaai
As in years past, we went out to Kolinvaai to join our friends there for a Christmas morning church service. I was asked to preach and so I read the Christmas story from Luke and then focused on Simeon and Anna’s encounters with the Christ child. There was lots of singing and dancing after the […]
BMC Christmas Eve Caroling
As in years past, the expat doctors at BMC visited patients on the wards on Christmas Eve and passed out oranges. This year it was just the Cahills and us and we were joined by our German friend Mattis. One thing we did differently this time was that William read the Christmas story in Mampruli […]
Mamprusi Dancing at Funeral
I thought this guy was a great example of typical dancing in a smock at Mamprusi cultural events.
2016 Damba Festival in Nalerigu
This year’s Damba Festival was much more low-key after last year’s presidential extravaganza! I really enjoyed being able to move more freely and photograph the events and people Here is a slideshow of photos from the trip but you can head over to my Flickr gallery to browse all my 2016 Damba Festival images.