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.

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As a follow-up to my post about Tommy Harrison, here is a panorama I made of his farm in northern Ghana. Pictured with him is Dr. Femke Veldman.

Click the image to the right to launch a new window the large panorama. Please be patient, it may take a while to load.

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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 moved to Nalerigu and became a full-time, independent missionary. No organization supports him financially – Tommy has dedicated his life to sharing Christ’s love with the people of Northern Ghana.

Tommy’s ministry is very unique. He works with the maintenance crew at the hospital, helping with repairs and construction. He takes his John Deere tractor out to remote villages to help them plow their fields (and bring in their harvest). He teaches farmers better farming techniques and he himself farms about 6 acres. The locals help him harvest his corn and soybeans and he saves the harvest until the dry season. When villages’ food supplies get low he begins distributing his harvest among them.
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Emily, the IMB journey(wo)man that I accompanied for part of my trip, has a blog of her own and recently posted some stuff about her visit to BMC with me. She writes about some of the people she interviewed for the stories she is working on.

She also gives me mad props for photos – thanks Emily!

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These are my black & white portraits from the last 3 weeks.

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During my 3 weeks in Ghana I took over 250 portraits of West Africans, most of them patients at BMC. I’ve been sorting through my favorites and am going to post them in a few different sets. Here’s the first of my “Faces of West Africa” series.

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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 shirt I had made for him from the BMC 50th anniversary material. I think we’ll have to wait a while before he wears that shirt in public. He’s also wearing Heidi’s surgical scrub cap I brought back.

This weekend Trey and I will leave Richmond and head down to Georgia to be re-united with Heidi.

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