by jimmy | Nov 14, 2008 | buildingaboat, missions, Uncategorized |
Well day 2 is in the books. We had a great day. A wet day but great nonetheless. My Spanish has come back again pretty good according to me, I am sure the folks I am speaking to are not too impressed but hopefully not offended. :). We talked as a group about many things and one thing we discussed as a group was not that we were here to serve and help people but that we are here to recieve as well. Here are some of the things I received today. This morning we went to the Pan de Vida orphanage. It is home to over 30 kids from ages 10 months to 14 anos. We did some work around the compound and played with the kids. We also gave them so much candy that they are all probably still awake. One of the guys brought playdoh and some bubbles which were a huge hit. A guy named Scot and I taught a boy named Mathew how to play PIG which we named GATO because we didn’t know the word for pig. We only got about half of the water off the court which was about a 10×15 slab. Mathew is 11 so his jumper needed some work. One of the special things that happened to me today was when Scot started teaching Mathew how to shoot correctly. You know these kids don’t have parents at all but the women that run the orphanage give them tons of love but there are no men. Lots of men are imprisoned and not all for bad things. In Mexico you...
by jimmy | Nov 14, 2008 | buildingaboat, missions, Uncategorized |
Hey everyone just winding down for the day thought i would drop you a note. Please excuse he grammer and typos. Well we are here in Mexico took us about six hours to get to the. AIM compound just West of Matamoras. We got in around 3 today and got settled in while we waited for the other groups to arrive. There are 13 guys total on the trip from Lake Hills and another 30 or so from Atlanta. The guys from Atlanta had a lot of trouble getting here travelwise but everyone made it safe and sound. We had a great time on the way down telling stories and getting to know one another. I rode with Tim our team lead he drove and had Ellory riding shotgun. We had Scot and Mo who are both like 40 and huge adrenaline junkies both into motocross and bikes and neither knew the other. There is Dean who was pretty quiet on the way down till we got him telling stories. Spent most of the trip talking to Brett. He is in the hotel business and has been all over the world. So that is the first group and my team. We played bocce ball and dominos tonight and then spent some time in worship singing some tunes. We are going to Pan de Vida orphanage in the AM to hang with about 30 kids. We have tons of candy and I have some toys that my kids gave me to bring to them. We will be building houses in the afternoon and then back here to the compound around...
by jimmy | Nov 11, 2008 | buildingaboat, missions, Uncategorized |
Hello everyone, Some of you may or may not know I am off tomorrow morning for another trip to Matamoras to do some work building houses and playing with the children in Las Colinas. Just wanted to ask for your prayers for my team members and I over the next few days as we travel to and from Mexico. I will again be doing some writing at night and sending to you-all, and Jeannie will post to the blog. Although this is my second trip, I am going with a new group of guys and I do not know a soul. I have gone back and forth on whether I wanted to do this and well; too late now. 🙂 I am excited to see what the Lord does. I do want to challenge each of you over the course of the next few days to do something that you have struggled with and just see if it is really as bad as you think. I will be thinking of each of you and feel free to write me back at the following address jimmy@thirdrailcreative.com. Go on my facebook page for daily posts. You can also check http://hamptonranch.wordpress.com Thanks for your prayers and talk to you soon. ...
by jimmy | Sep 18, 2008 | missions |
From Custer Road – Mexico, posted by Jimmy Hampton on 9/18/2008 (12 items) Generated by Facebook Photo...
by jimmy | May 11, 2008 | buildingaboat, missions, Uncategorized |
Mexico Video. You will need windows media player. Sorry mac folks. http://www.hamptonranch.com/mexicomissiontrip2008.wmv Well I am on the plane headed back to Austin. I am sitting with a couple of the guys and we are all very sore and ready to see our families. We are still in laughing and having a great time. I know I have said this before but this is a really great group of guys. We went into Mexico again this morning to do more work on the school. My career as an electrician never materialized. I decided inside the school was for sissys. Only kidding, I needed to get my sore muscles cranking soooo…….for about three hours I wielded a pick axe and shovel alternating pretty much between the two. Funny though, I do not feel the same hateful passion for the pick axe as I do for the dirt tamper. That thing is a killer. I did take a few more pictures of the kids and gave Hirwin, one of the boys living at the school a 1 gig memory card for his camera. I told him he could take muchas muchas photos. Not sure his computer can handle it but great to see he and his mom’s reaction. We did have some fun. Larry our guide had a watergun fight with some of the kids. Mike is the reason I am on the trip. Our friendship began many years ago when he worked for CBS and he was my sales rep. Now we are great friends and although we do not still do work together we are very close...
