Disaster Relief

Deliver help, hope and healing in the name of Christ to those suffering after a disaster. 

Texans on Mission has responded to every natural disaster in Texas since 1967 and many beyond it, including the Southeast Asia tsunami, Hurricane Katrina and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Through a diverse array of ministries, Texans on Mission has provided the calm after the storm for millions.


Go on Mission

You can deliver help, hope and healing after a disaster by becoming a member of a Texans on Mission Disaster Relief team. Through Texans on Mission Disaster Relief teams, you can:

  • Provide practical help during tragedies by serving hot, nutritious meals and providing access to shower and laundry services.
  • Be part of a chainsaw team that moves debris and fallen and damaged trees.
  • Clean out and repair homes damaged by floods and fire.
  • Pray with and encourage survivors, offering hope for better days after the storm.

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Be the calm in the storm

As a disaster relief volunteer, you can: 

  • Assess damage
  • Distribute boxes and packing supplies
  • Chainsaw fallen trees
  • Install temporary roofs
  • Manage large-scale relief efforts
  • Minister as a chaplain
  • Mud out damaged homes
  • Offer free shower and laundry services
  • Provide child care
  • Serve warm, nutritious meals

 

Share your faith and meet human need through international relief with Texans on Mission

 

Texans on Mission is uniquely experienced and equipped to respond to physical and spiritual needs around the wrold because of our decades of work closer to home.

 

We stepped up when:

  • An earthquake rocked Turkey and Syria.
  • War came to Uikraine.
  • A train derailed in India. 
  • War came to Israel.

Texans on Mission experience and expertise providing disaster relief in the United States translates well into helping others in may countries. When we respod to international need, we carry out Jesus' callig to reach the ends of the earth in His name. 

 

Explore your calling to international relief

 

 

Read more about Texans on Mission Disaster Relief teams 

TBM chainsaw teams serve after tornado strikes East Texas

TBM chainsaw teams from Harmony-Pittsburg Baptist Association and Central East Texas are meeting needs after a tornado hit Mount Enterprise on March 27.

 

TBM Disaster Relief assessors were surveying the damage the same day as the storm and chainsaw teams deployed shortly after. A TBM shower unit from Green Acres Baptist Church in Tyler as well as a TBM feeding team from Lindale are supporting the chainsaw teams as they cut and clear fallen trees and limbs in the affected area for free.

 

“We were monitoring the line of storms all day,” said David Wells, director of TBM Disaster Relief. “As soon as we confirmed a tornado touched ground, TBM volunteers were on the scene following the storm. Now, about 30 chainsaw volunteers are delivering help, hope and healing in the name of Christ during some of the most difficult days of people’s lives.”

 

Gene Walker, who is leading the Harmony-Pittsburg Baptist Association unit, said the damage is significant. The team already has cut down an 80-foot tree that was hanging over a house as well as a “huge” tree that was sitting on a propane tank.

 

“The storm has a trail of about 40 miles,” he said. “It came down, then it hopped up, then it came down. Where it came down, it was devastating. It was random.”
 

While the chainsaws cut broken limbs, the volunteers lift spirits. They encourage residents who were impacted by the tornado. They help people process what they’ve experienced.

 

“We’re doing this because we can,” Walker said. “We’ve been given the ability and skill to do this in the past. We love to help people. When the time is appropriate, we share the gospel. We pray with people.”

 

TBM Disaster Relief is made possible by gifts from people like you. 100 percent of donations made to TBM Disaster Relief supports disaster relief ministry. To give, visit tbmtx.org/donate or mail checks to Texas Baptist Men, 5351 Catron Dr., Dallas, Texas 75227.