Baptist Medical Centre

After nearly 18 years as pharmacist at baptist Medical Centre, Dr. Jane Paysinger left Nalerigu. She will be missed and we wish her all the best in her new endeavors. Hospital staff and missionaries gave her a send off during the week before she left.

First there was a football match between the hospital women and teachers from the local secondary school.


Later a delegation went with Dr. Paysinger to say goodbye to the Nayiri, who is the paramount chief for the Mamprusi people.

Later, there was an official farewell where there were speeches, dancing and gifts.





First Baptist Church also had a special farewell service for Dr. Paysinger.

Nalerigu station also had a farewell dinner and gifts for her.

Dr. Paysinger left Nalerigu with several new outfits and several citations/plaques. She is now living and working in Tennessee.

As part of this special week of events, some BMC employees visited local schools and gave educational health talks about typhoid. The Mr. Thomas and Mr. Otto visited the Nalerigu Senior High School and the L/A Junior High School and taught the students the causes of typhoid, its consequences, and practical measures to avoid contracting it. The informative talks were followed up with a very productive Q&A session.

Also in February we had a large team of volunteers from Clarksville Baptist Church. They have chosen the Bissa people group to work with in presenting the Gospel. Here in our area the Bissa are called Busansi and represent one of the more than 20 different people groups who come to the hospital. Most of the team did evangelistic outreach in the surrounding villages and worked with the hospital chaplains. One of the team members is Dr. Donnie Crawford. He came and helped in the hospital by doing surgery and seeing patients. He worked with some of the residents who were here at the time.

The others on the team were: Bill and Mary Lou Graham, Robert and Velda Fort, James and Carol McCutchen, Roger Freeman (pastor), Frank White, Kevin Brown, William Belew, Bradley Smith, Gloria Rosser and Jared Hodges. Jared is an MK and grew up in West Africa.

In the picture above is also Jay Shafto, the Field Strategy Leader for our team. He lives in Burkina Faso with his family.