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Sports Spectrum Podcast

Mikado Hinson on serving with Texas A&M, his love for boxing and the importance of sowing seeds of Jesus

Sports Spectrum Podcast

Sports Spectrum

Sports

5661 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Mikado Hinson is the Director of Football Player Development at Texas A&M. He joined the Aggies program in 2014 after after serving on staff with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) in Houston since 1998. Hinson also served at the University of Houston, where he spent 14 years (2000-14) as the Team Chaplain and Character Development Coach for the Cougar football program. 

During that time, Hinson was also the Team Chaplain for the Houston Rockets from 2000-08, and served on the FCA National Chaplain’s Task Force from 2010-13. He became a licensed and ordained minister in 2005. 

Hinson earned a BS in mass communications with a concentration in broadcast and journalism from Norfolk State University in 1998 and being a boxing ring announcer on the side. 

Today on the podcast, we talk to Mikado about his unique role with Texas A&M's football team, what it means to be a "reformed knucklehead," hearing from God, and why he has a desire to serve and love those around him.


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0:00.0

Today's episode of Sports Spectrum's podcast is presented by our friends at Compassion International.

0:06.5

We've talked about compassion and we're so grateful for their partnership here on Sports

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Spectrum.

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They have been with us now for four years and the work that they do is second to none.

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We're talking about releasing kids young children from poverty. child should be stuck in poverty it's just

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not what should be happening and compassion says you know what we're going to do something about

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it we're going to stand in the gap with these children and help them and their families be released

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from poverty stricken situations and when you go to the website,

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Compassion.com slash sports spectrum, you'll see a list of children there waiting to be released

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from poverty. Just simply the words, choose me, kids from Indonesia, kids from all around the world,

0:51.4

Mexico, Uganda, Nicaragua, Colombia, Ghana. I mean, just the Philippines,

0:57.6

Bangladesh, all over the world. These kids did nothing to deserve the poverty-stricken

1:04.3

situations that they're in. But here's the beautiful thing about compassion. They give you and I

1:10.3

an opportunity to stand in the

1:12.5

gap and help these kids and release them from poverty it's why myself and my wife and my daughter

1:17.8

feel so strongly about compassion and sponsor a child through their program and we want to encourage

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you to do the same it's thirty eight dollars a month tax deductible and it connects a child living in

1:29.1

poverty with a loving, church-driven child sponsorship program like Compassion International.

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Consider it today. Pray about it and think about where your money might go each and every day.

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In this situation, your money is going for medical checkups, nutritional food,

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educational assistance, mentoring, and most importantly, every sponsored child with compassion

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will hear about Jesus Christ and be encouraged to develop a lifelong relationship with God.

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