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.

Volunteer Now

 

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 Disaster Relief provides 100,000th meal after Hurricane Ida

Texas Baptist Men Disaster Relief provided its 100,000th meal after Hurricane Ida as the organization’s relief effort inches toward one month.

 

The TBM State Feeding Kitchen deployed hours Hurricane Ida made landfall in Louisiana with 150-mph winds. TBM volunteers began serving hot meals shortly after amid widespread devastation.

 

The massive feeding effort was made possible by people statewide responding to meet the need, said TBM Disaster Relief Director David Wells.

 

“Many, many, many people stepped up to serve in response to God's call,” he said. “Some served for the first time. Others served with a feeding team for the first time. Others yet extended their service to meet needs. Those who couldn't go, prayed God would provide. Together, the TBM family provided significant help to people in their most difficult days.”

 

As some TBM teams were providing meals, others were clearing fallen trees and limbs. Working home to home to home, the sound of TBM chainsaws could be heard from Baton Rouge to just northwest of New Orleans.

 

Just seeing the yellow shirts of TBM volunteers lifted spirits. Residents knew help was coming.

 

“You all are an answer to my prayer,” said Judy Robinson of Mt. Airy, La. “I've been laboring in this house since Sunday, and when I saw Texas-TBM pull up yesterday, I was so overjoyed. I thank God."

 

For many, TBM chainsaw teams were an answer to prayer.

 

“Thank you for helping my son clear the fallen trees and limbs from his yard,” said Lynda Jo Shugars. “It would have taken him weeks. I could tell from his voice that he was suffering from exhaustion, so I prayed. God sent you.”

 

While helping with trees, TBM volunteers connected to homeowners. Chaplains helped people work through the trauma they’ve experienced. They prayed with people. They distributed 250 Bibles. At least 24 people have come to faith in Christ.

 

“God is at work in Louisiana,” Wells said. “His people are responding to His call, and because of that, lives are being transformed. Please continue to pray for Louisiana as well as those responding to needs after this storm.”