Photo above is from Honduras Outreach at Estabian Olancho in Honduras. [X-E2, XF18-55mmF2.8-4 R LM OIS, Mode = Aperture Priority, ISO 6400, 1/60, ƒ/4, (35mm = 83)]
Today our world is suffering like no other time in my lifetime. For Christians we are celebrating today the day that Jesus Christ arose from the dead.
Last night Dorie and I joined our Jewish friends for a Zoom Virtual Seder meal. The significance of the meal is to retell the story of the Exodus from Egypt.
Diaspora Journey – A Passover Haggadah Drama by Corey-Jan Albert
A uniquely conceived Passover Haggadah, structured as a play in which people act out consistent roles throughout the evening. It takes place at Seder tables through history, telling not only the story of the Jews’ exodus from Egypt, but also the continuing tale of Jewish survival through the ages. This revised edition includes key updates – including new music by the author – and follows the traditional order more closely than the original version, to enable the widest possible audience to experience and enjoy it.
This morning Dorie said that today still feels like Saturday for Christians celebrating Easter. We are still living in the Pandemic and the numbers are still climbing in cases, those going to hospitals and sadly the death toll as well.
I have been thinking a lot today of those I have met around the world and how they will be celebrating Easter isolated and no longer gathering in churches to celebrate.
The Biblical History Center in LaGrange, Georgia helps people encounter the ancient biblical world through its history and culture. [NIKON D4, 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8, Mode = Manual, ISO 400, 1/200, ƒ/8, (35mm = 14)]
Christians re-tell the story of Christ and the empty tomb.
Lisbon, Portugal [X-E2, XF55-200mmF3.5-4.8 R LM OIS, Mode = Aperture Priority, ISO 6400, 1/300, ƒ/3.5, (35mm = 83)]
These are more views of Lisbon that I am pondering today.Eastern Orthodox Priest in Romania Herăști, Giurgiu, Romania [NIKON D4, 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8, Mode = Aperture Priority, ISO 12800, 1/80, ƒ/3.2, (35mm = 14)]
More photos from RomaniaNicaragua
[NIKON D5, 24.0-105.0 mm f/4.0, Mode = Aperture Priority, ISO 2200, 1/100, ƒ/10, (35mm = 105)]
Nicaragua
[NIKON D5, 24.0-105.0 mm f/4.0, Mode = Aperture Priority, ISO 400, 1/100, ƒ/5, (35mm = 62)]
Togo, West Africa
[NIKON D5, 24.0-105.0 mm f/4.0, Mode = Aperture Priority, ISO 8000, 1/100, ƒ/6.3, (35mm = 105)]
More photos from Togo, West Africa
Kosovo Leadership Academy (KLA) [X-E2, XF18-55mmF2.8-4 R LM OIS, Mode = Aperture Priority, ISO 2500, 1/100, ƒ/3.6, (35mm = 56)]
Catholic Church in the Balkans [X-E2, XF18-55mmF2.8-4 R LM OIS, Mode = Aperture Priority, ISO 1250, 1/100, ƒ/4, (35mm = 83)]
Mitrovica, Kosovo [X-E2, XF18-55mmF2.8-4 R LM OIS, Mode = Aperture Priority, ISO 400, 1/120, ƒ/2.8, (35mm = 27)]
Woman sits outside listening to the worship service at Bon Berger (Good Shepherd) Baptist Church located in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. (Photo by: Stanley Leary) [NIKON D2X, , Mode = Aperture Priority, ISO 100, 1/250, ƒ/2.8, (35mm = 39)]
Bon Berger (Good Shepherd) Baptist Church located in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. (Photo by: Stanley Leary)
[NIKON D2X, Sigma 18-50mm F2.8 EX DC, Mode = Aperture Priority, ISO 400, 1/40, ƒ/2.8, (35mm = 27)]
Standing in front of the Kwumde Baptist Church building is Pascal Bonkoungou the pastor. Kwumde is just a little outside of Koudougou. [NIKON D2X, Sigma 18-50mm F2.8 EX DC, Mode = Aperture Priority, ISO 100, 1/200, ƒ/8, (35mm = 30)]
I am also reminded of the hospitals I have visited and the prayer that is happening today is them. Most all of them do not have ventilators. Just imagine that much of the world if they get COVID-19 and need to be hospitalized and need a ventilator the best they can do is have someone hand press on a bag.
Doug Parkin, volunteer pediatrician from Arizona is seeing patients during his two month service at the Baptist Medical Center in Nalerigu, Ghana. [NIKON D2X, 18.0-50.0 mm f/2.8, Mode = Aperture Priority, ISO 800, 1/20, ƒ/4, (35mm = 42)]
Rose Nantonah the nurse is setting the IV with a small child patient at the Baptist Medical Center in Nalerigu, Ghana. [NIKON D2X, 18.0-50.0 mm f/2.8, Mode = Aperture Priority, ISO 800, 1/80, ƒ/2.8, (35mm = 27)]
A mass of people wait for medical treatment at the Baptist Medical Centre in Nalerigu, Ghana. [NIKON D2X, , Mode = Aperture Priority, ISO 400, 1/25, ƒ/2.8, (35mm = 27)]
Dr. George Faile, family practitioner is making his rounds at the Baptist Medical Centre in Nalerigu, Ghana. [NIKON D2X, Sigma 18-50mm F2.8 EX DC, Mode = Aperture Priority, ISO 400, 1/20, ƒ/2.8, (35mm = 39)]
Mother and her little boy carried in kaitenge. They are staying here at the Hôpital Baptiste Biblique in Tsiko, Togo, West Africa. She takes care of the family members in the hospital. The hospital doesn’t have the staff to feed the patients and change their linens, so the family does this to help the doctors and nurses as they tend to the medical side for the patient. [NIKON Z 6, 24.0-105.0 mm f/4.0, Mode = Aperture Priority, ISO 1800, 1/200, ƒ/4, (35mm = 32)]
Surgeons doing a bone graft of lower part of leg for a little boy to hopefully help him keep his leg at the Hôpital Baptiste Biblique located in Tsiko, Togo, West Africa.
[NIKON D5, 24.0-105.0 mm f/4.0, Mode = Aperture Priority, ISO 11400, 1/100, ƒ/9, (35mm = 82)]
