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 teams jump into action to meet needs after historic winter storm

TBM Disaster Relief teams have sprung into action after a historic winter storm plunged all of Texas temperatures below freezing, pushing the state’s electrical grid to the brink and breaking water pipes statewide.

 

More than 7 million Texans had water-related issues on Feb. 17, according to media reports. Rolling blackouts continue in many parts of the state as the power grid attempts to meet the spike in demand as Texans seek to stay warm in the record-breaking cold.

 

Photos of icicles inside Texas houses have gone viral and people are waiting hours for groceries, firewood and gas. Some homes have dropped to temperatures in the 40s as a result of prolonged power loss.

 

“This is truly a statewide emergency in every sense of the word,” said TBM Disaster Relief Director David Wells. “Every city, every region of Texas is being affected. We are seeking to provide help, hope and healing as quickly as possible.”

 

TBM teams and units are responding across the state:

 

  • TBM is deploying a shower/laundry unit to a Cedar Hill apartment complex that houses 700 people. It has electricity, but many of its pipes have broken. The unit will give residents a way to take a hot shower and get their laundry done by TBM volunteers. The city of Cedar Hill also requested a large TBM generator in another location to serve its citizens.
  • A generator and TBM electronic support unit have been dispatched and returned in support of a warming station at First Baptist Church in Edgewood.
  • East Texas TBM volunteers are feeding locally.
  • The TBM Comanche Shower Unit is meeting needs locally.
  • TBM has sent bottled water to East Texas Baptist University, Sharing Life Ministries in Mesquite as well as churches in the Houston area to help people without access to drinking water.
  • TBM is also in the process of sending shower/laundry units to Marble Falls as well as Allen to meet needs there.

“People are hurting,” Wells said. “They tired. They’re overwhelmed by the situation. We are mobilizing volunteers to meet their needs, help them and lift their spirits.”

 

TBM Disaster Relief is made possible by prayer and financial support. 100 percent of gifts to TBM Disaster Relief support disaster relief ministry. To give online, visit tbmtx.org. To give via check, send it to Texas Baptist Men, 5351 Catron Dr., Dallas, Texas 75227.
 

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