Rob Hamilton. Mighty man of God. Warrior for the Kingdom.
I first met Rob and his family on Thanksgiving Day 2011. They came to We Will Go Ministries to serve as volunteers and were wrecked by Holy Spirit as they served food and sat with our homeless neighbors. They began coming regularly, helping with different projects as we were restoring several former crack houses, transforming them into beautiful missionary homes. As they worked on our future homes, Holy Spirit continued to work in their hearts.
As the months went by, it was Rob and his sister Ellie who first began to speak about their growing desire to become We Will Go missionaries and live on the ministry base in downtown Jackson. The faith of these kids was beautiful to watch as they loved our neighbors and worked just as hard as us adults on the endless projects. In the fall of 2012, a year after their first visit to We Will Go, the Hamilton family became my next door neighbors! We live together in community for a year before I moved overseas and truly became family.
Rob is now a rising senior at Hartfiled Academy where he is a key member of the varsity basketball team.
Rob, I have been praying for you as I have edited your photos. The word the Lord keeps bringing to my mind is from Jeremiah 1
4 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
5 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you;
Before you were born I sanctified[a] you;
I [b]ordained you a prophet to the nations.”6 Then said I:
“Ah, Lord God!
Behold, I cannot speak, for I am a youth.”7 But the Lord said to me:
“Do not say, ‘I am a youth,’
For you shall go to all to whom I send you,
And whatever I command you, you shall speak.
8 Do not be afraid of their faces,
For I am with you to deliver you,” says the Lord.9 Then the Lord put forth His hand and touched my mouth, and the Lord said to me:
“Behold, I have put My words in your mouth.
10 See, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms,
To root out and to pull down,
To destroy and to throw down,
To build and to plant.”
Meridith Lee Photography 