Jeff Hampton – Page 94 – Jeff Hampton, Writer

February 2, 2021

Cutting in Line

For Wilshire Baptist Church

I wasn’t going to write about getting the COVID vaccine because so many other people need it and should get it before me. But I cut in line – just stumbled into it actually – so here I am.

The short story is I volunteered to drive LeAnn to her authorized, scheduled vaccine appointment, and during her preliminary curbside screening, the nurse looked at me through the open car window and asked if I wanted the vaccine too. I don’t know if it was because of my gray hair or the fact that it was late Friday afternoon and maybe they didn’t want to waste any doses at week’s end, but she asked. I told her I wasn’t old enough, but she said they’d take me if I wanted it. I said, “Okay.”

January 26, 2021

Being the Church

For Wilshire Baptist Church

Wilshire had its first-ever virtual annual church conference on Sunday. In years past, there’d be several hundred people crowded into our community hall at noon for a light lunch and then an hour’s worth of reports about the missions, ministries and finances of the past year and the prospects and plans for the new year. This year we couldn’t meet in person, of course, but with at least 140-plus people online, I think we did pretty good.

January 19, 2021

Little Drops of Rain

For Wilshire Baptist Church

This past fall we didn’t get to make our annual trip to a national park, but as I wrote here in November, we did make it to a pair of state parks in the Texas Hill Country. And in late November, we traveled to Glacier National Park by way of a Smithsonian webinar about the geology of the park. It was interesting, mind boggling, soul stirring and faith fortifying, but maybe not in the way expected.