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 expanding response to Turkey-Syria earthquake

TBM responded quickly after the Feb. 6 earthquake devastated regions of Turkey and Syria. Now, TBM is sending its water ministry leader to Turkey to bring more water filtration to both countries.

“Our donors have been greatly moved by the tragic situation after the earthquake,” said Rand Jenkins, TBM’s director of ministry advancement. “And we have been working with in-country and neighboring ministry partners to provide blankets, water and food.”

Mitch Chapman, director of TBM water impact, is now heading to Turkey to provide increased access to drinking water. He is taking two water filtration systems, each contained in a packing case and capable of providing clean water for 12,800 people a piece.

“The biggest need is to get water cleaned up in tent cities,” Chapman said. “We’re going to go over there and test the water for bacteria, to see if this filtration system will work as needed.”

If the system works as expected, Chapman hopes to identify local sources for parts so local Christians can build more filter systems. Also, Christians are coming from Syria to be trained on how to build the systems.

“The need over there is so great,” he said. “We don’t come in with an attitude that we can do things better than them. Rather, we are there to help them fill in gaps.”

Chapman is going to Turkey in partnership with Missouri Baptist Disaster Relief. “We’re going to be focusing on people who have been displaced and are living in tent cities. We have the opportunity to bring clean water and to teach them how to take it to the next place.

“We’re going to go and empower the local churches in this region,” Chapman said. “They are going to have an opportunity to serve the rest of their community.”

The project is part of TBM’s International Relief efforts. Supporters can donate to the effort by giving through the TBM website.