Tommy Harrison has been doing mission work in Ghana on and off for the past 24 years. In the 80s and 90s, he would leave his business in Alabama and come out with his wife to work in Nalerigu for a few months at a time. Several years ago, after his wife passed away, Tommy […]
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 […]
Scalp Hematoma
A 10-year-old girl came in last week with huge hematoma on her head caused by a motorcycle accident. A hematoma is a collection of blood outside the blood vessels. We get them all the time as bruises. This young girl’s was different in that it was a huge amount of blood that had collected on […]
Giving Back
One of my cardinal rules for photography in West Africa is to never promise to give my subjects a copy of their photo. It is impossible to guarantee you will be able to get a print made and sent back to Africa from the US, not to mention the difficulty of finding the subject in […]
Speaking to Women at SFBC
Today I spoke to the women of our church Seminole First Baptist. They invited me to share about women in West Africa as well as my experiences at the hospital. I talked about the role of women in West Africa, how hard they work, and their own place in bringing their people to understand the […]
Meet Elsie (audio interview & photos)
This is the last audio interview I did while in Ghana this past Fall. In this “Meet People” series I wanted to challenge our blog readers’ traditional views of what a “missionary” is and does. In this interview I talk with Elsie McCall, a 71 year-old teacher, who has been serving for 8 years as […]
Paintings of the Hewitt Kids
Before leaving, Heidi found time to do three small paintings of the Hewitt kids from photos I took of them. She gave the paintings to Mona and Earl as a Christmas present. Mona scanned them and shared the digital copies with us.
Meet Kerry (audio interview & photos)
Kerry Spencer is a cool guy. That about sums it up. He is a young, single guy who has spent two 2-year terms as a missionary in West Africa. I met him while on a photo assignment in southwestern Burkina Faso. Since Kerry is such a cool guy, the West Africa media team had written […]
Meet Jerry (audio interview & pictures)
Jerry Robertson was one of the first people I meet when I first came to Africa as a 6 year-old boy in 1986. Jerry and Carol’s kids Becky and Everette were my age and I loved playing with them whenever we went to Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire. The Robertsons have been missionaries for 30 years – […]