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Forty-nine students from across Texas donned yellow T-shirts and travelled to Kerrville last week for Texans on Missions’s summer Revive trip. From Sunday through Wednesday, these volunteer youth worked hard on service projects under the hot sun, connecting with homeowners and growing in both skill and spirit.

Lalam Jackline was struggling to support her family. Among many other factors, lack of transportation was one of the biggest barriers to making a living. She needed a reliable way to move fresh produce from her garden to sell at markets.

Today, she owns a motorcycle — made possible through her participation in a community-based microfinance savings group.

During this year’s LTC at Camp Menard — a lush, green campground on the outskirts of the small town — 12 Royal Ambassador state staffers spent last week preparing to teach campcraft skills like outdoor cooking, starting campfires and water purification and connect those lessons to biblical truths when they serve at seven different camps across Texas this summer. 

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.

On May 23, 1986, TXM helped build the Hospitality House — a free place for families to stay while visiting their fathers, sons, brothers and husbands held in one of the 17 correctional facilities in the Huntsville area. The Hospitality House would become the first of its kind in Texas, the second in the nation, and the only to ever be constructed in an impressive 24-hour period.

Texans on Mission has named Phillip Ditto as disaster relief director to lead the ministry’s response efforts in Texas, across the United States and around the world effective June 1.

An EF-3 tornado ripped through Mineral Wells at about 5 p.m. on Tuesday evening, April 28. Texans on Mission volunteers responded promptly, deploying the next day with a chainsaw team, a box team, and quickly setting up a shower and laundry unit to support the Red Cross unit at First Baptist Church, Mineral Wells. 

A sea of yellow-capped volunteers crowded into Texans on Mission headquarters in Dallas on Friday, May 1 and Saturday, May 2 for the first Yellow Cap Gathering, an event hosted to celebrate Yellow Caps and familiarize new volunteers with the deployment process.

At Texans on Mission, chaplains are individuals who go out into worksites and disaster sites to provide spiritual and emotional support to survivors by sharing the love of Christ.

“Our role is to help [survivors] get emotionally and spiritually balanced,” chaplain Melanie Howington said. “Our main goal is to get them to where they have hope.” 

Though, how that mission takes shape is unique for everyone, Howington said.

In the northern Ugandan district of Omoro, a spiritual transformation is taking root. New churches are being planted, and through Texans on Mission, the Water Impact team is building something lasting: a mission network of pastors who are well trained and fully equipped for ministry. 

For Mikey Osborne, Texans On Mission (TXM) discipleship and outreach coordinator, the significance of Disciple Now (DNow) weekends goes far beyond a packed schedule of Bible studies and recreational activities. What stands out most to him is what happens when students take ownership of their faith — often in ways that surprise even seasoned ministry leaders.

A series of powerful tornadoes tore through parts of Illinois and northwestern Indiana on the evening of March 10, leaving behind widespread destruction and communities in need of urgent relief. 

In the days that followed, Texans on Mission disaster relief teams deployed to the area to assist residents with cleanup and recovery efforts.