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.
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
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read moreFeeding, flood recovery, chainsaw teams serve after Hurricane Helene
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read moreTexans on Mission volunteers rebuild home for tornado victim
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read more‘A good bunch’ — Deep East Texas team responds to Hurricane Francine flooding
“Stop,” urged Chaplain Leslie Burch of the Texans on Mission Deep East Texas flood recovery team. “Can everybody stop and pray with me?” She asked her fellow team members to halt their work as they tore out flooring in the home of Troy and Angel in Morgan City, La. The couple’s home had been flooded during heavy rains that hit the Mississippi Delta town the week before as Hurricane Francine landed in southern Louisiana.
read moreFirst Texans on Mission teams head to Louisiana
Texans on Mission deployed an initial set of generator, electrical and fuel units to Kenner, Louisiana, near New Orleans, and is readying flood recovery teams to serve as soon as needs are further assessed.
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