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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.
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
- Protect volunteers and equipment that is deployed
- 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 world 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 respond to international need, we carry out Jesus' calling 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
Volunteers restore homes, hope after catastrophic Louisiana flooding
Several Louisianans — like Cottonport resident Yolanda Griffin — could do nothing but watch terrified as raging floodwaters from Tropical Storm Arthur tore through homes they’ve spent decades in.
Over 30 Texans on Mission volunteers deployed to the area on Monday and are working hard to help struggling residents move forward.
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American Red Cross grants TXM $750,000 for continued Hill Country rebuilding efforts
The grant will support home repairs and rebuilding projects, provide transitional housing for displaced residents and address the effects of disaster-caused trauma in communities affected by the flooding.
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‘What we do matters’: Reflecting on TXM’s year of recovery in the Hill Country
While thousands of volunteers from various disaster response organizations rushed to Kerrville in the days following the flood, they ceased their work within weeks. TXM remains one of only a handful still serving in the area a year later, continuing what has become the organization's longest rebuild effort in its history.
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Waco homeowners embraced with help, hope from volunteers following flash flood
In her 30 years living in Waco, homeowner Alisha Laws had never experienced such an aggressive flash flood as the one that passed through the evening of July 14.
Thankfully, Texans on Mission volunteers were there to help mud out her home, giving her the hope and healing she desperately needed.
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TXM volunteers clean up ashen Amarillo homes following wildfire
While local firefighters helped save hundreds of homes following the Stinky Fire, many others were lost completely, leaving homeowners facing the daunting task of recovery. Texans on Mission volunteer teams responded as quickly as possible to bring Amarillo residents help, hope and healing.
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