LHC IRONMEN Mission Trip 2010

by | Nov 8, 2010 | missions |

From LHC IRONMEN Mission Trip 2010, posted by Jimmy Hampton on 11/08/2010 (91 items) Little pre-game. Safe return for Z Just arrived Z doing stand up! JK The stories of Rio Bravo are everywhere. Washing dishes Spencer showing the kids how to do the games. Bible study Bible study Settling in for some worship Kevin gets to hold the newborn Ray wiring Robert doing the doors Cutting beds Darrell doing some carpentry Ellery sanding Jeff on the bed crew Dirt duty Taking the hill Mathew eyeing the polaris great shot of blake not working Time for lunch Blake not working Generated by Facebook Photo...

Back in Mexico

by | Oct 6, 2010 | buildingaboat, missions |

Well I am back in Mexico a mile from the border. We were up and on the road again at 5. So I will be short but i do want to share my experiences with you.  For some you have gotten these notes before and I thank you for your prayers. I am always amazed at how much withdrawing from life to come across the border changes my perspective. There is so much need and it is really just a matter of listening and putting faith first I really did not think I could make this trip with my work being so crazy these days.  But I am thankful for my team and though I am only down for couple of days I have already felt closer to God in many ways. And felt satans constant pull to safer things. I am here and I could not feel more safe and alive.  I sat at dinner on the front patio area of a small house and had the best tacos of my life.  A man and woman with there small daughter. Cooking from the house. So good.  We were able to bless them with some money and I will give more tomorrow but here support goes far.  We also prayed for them and I have forgotten how powerful it is to be around Z when he gets going. I love being here. We painted a room in a building Z is turning into a center for kids of the area. See Americans are no longer coming to help as they once did. The violence has them scared.  I understand...

My Aunt Betty

by | Aug 26, 2009 | buildingaboat, Uncategorized |

It was a long day. Tuesday we laid my Aunt Betty to rest it was one of the more emotional days of my life for me as I have never been to a funeral for somebody that young and full of life. My grandparents have passed and great uncles and great aunts but they had all lived long and fruitful lives. My dad and Aunt Betty’s side especially with a couple living to 100. So to lose my Aunt at 65 is very much a shock to us all despite her mother passing at a young age of 49. I told you a little about my Aunt yesterday and how she touched so many lives. I wanted to share today more details of the events and the moments that I felt God’s presence. It was early and we were staying at a hotel and heading over to the house to wait for the car but before we left I grabbed my ipod to listen to some music. I find that when I listen to music I can focus on larger things than what is happening in that moment. I heard some great tunes again from mercyme and also from wide awake and our friend scott leger. He sings: ” I know love is more than a feeling. But I would give anything to touch you now. I wish that I could get to you somehow.” So I am listening to this and thinking about everyone around me and how we are all feeling the same miserable feelings. Just hoping to feel better somehow. Wondering how she could have been...

Street Retreat – Reward

by | Mar 30, 2009 | buildingaboat, missions, Uncategorized |

  I wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed our journey together and to share with you an experience with God today.   I headed into work just as usual but really needed to drive just by the park so I made the block and drove by but nobody there except Stephen.  Yeah, no thanks on that conversation.  I got in my office was hanging out downstairs and a guy in a rebel hat goes strolling by the window. He was not so nice either. Wow first hour already seen two guys from the weekend.  Almost everyday I grab a sandwich at Jimmy Johns (even though Stephen says they suck) and I usually walk down the alley behind the Driscoll.  Like EVERYDAY.  Except today the alley is closed. No biggie, so I walk out on Congress and as I cross over 7th heading South I see Steve (guy that came to church with us) sitting at the bus stop.  So I go over say Hello and I see he is eating so I say I am going to grab a sandwich and talk to him in a minute.  I walk down towards Pita Pit and this woman asks me if she can have some money to get a pita.  I told her no way those sandwiches “suck” lets go to Jimmy John’s. So we go grab her a sandwich and she is very gracious and says she doesn’t have many friends out on the street. I told her to go to the park and meet my friends. I hope to see Christy on Wednesday on our mobile loaves run. Then I head back up the street and...