Thought I would spend the second post explaining a little about who I am, so you would know a little bit about me. My name is Dallas Stamper and I’ve been married to my wonderful wife Anne for 21 years. We have two children that we are very proud of Megan 19 and Kenny 14. I have a BS in Engineering Technology from Old Dominion University, so that explains why I now run a nonprofit organization now. After high school I spent 3 years in the Army (82nd Airborne Division), which was followed by a warehouse job in the day and college at night. It took me 8 years to get a 4 year degree (there is a line in Tommy Boy where Tommy Boy says “allot of people go to college for 8 years”, the response to that is yea “their called Doctors”.) The fact that I’m comparing myself to Tommy Boy in the second post explains allot about how my mind works. After, college I got a job at a software engineering company called IDAX which was eventually purchased by GE. Then on January 16, 2006 I began working at PIN fulltime… So who said you can’t love your job.
So why leave GE to work for a nonprofit that helps homeless people. I became a Christian in 1999 and decided that Jesus really cared about poor people, so I wanted to care about the people that Jesus cared about. I have to be honest before I became a Christian at age 33 I thought Christians were more concerned with judging people than helping people. So now at the age of 33 I decided that the best way I could change that perception was to change how I treated poor people. So in 2002 PIN began with one family (I introduced them earlier) talking sandwiches to homeless people. Now 6 years later PIN is this amazing organization that is making a huge impact in Virginia Beach, VA.
