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Following the flooding in the Hill Country this July, new Yellow Caps Todd Vician and Ann Avera headed to Uvalde for their first disaster relief deployment with Texans on Mission. We spoke with Vician and Avera about how they got involved, what it was like stepping onto a job site for the first time and why they continue to serve with TXM today.
 

For years, Amone has served as a church leader at St. Stephen Musalaba Church of Uganda in the Amuru District. But before that, he was stationed in the Omoro District, where Texans and Ugandans on Mission first began its work. There, he became a member of a Bible study group, and what he experienced changed the way he viewed ministry forever.

Texans on Mission gathered ministry leaders, board members and supporters at the Estancia Del Norte hotel on Sept. 22 for its 2026 convention, celebrating a year of expanding disaster relief and long-term recovery efforts, global water projects and growing God’s kingdom by providing help, hope and healing.

After a catastrophic flash flood and landslide occurred near the Nepal-China border on Aug. 26, Texans on Mission volunteers deployed to the area to bring help and comfort to the hurt and devastated Nepali people — physically, emotionally and spiritually.

Since Aug. 30, Texans on Mission volunteers have washed 807 loads of laundry for first responders in Palo Pinto and Mineral Wells. This service helps exhausted crews avoid long trips into town and lines at laundromats, giving them more time to rest and recover for the next shift.

LaNoue and his wife, Kaywin, spent three months in New York City following the attacks, coordinating a massive disaster response that fed 150 volunteers each day, cleaned out 750 ash-filled apartments free of charge for residents and distributed more than 22,000 teddy bears to comfort family members of loved ones lost.

Volunteers are serving homeowners in communities using chainsaws, skid steers and more to remove fallen and damaged trees from homes and properties like White’s. The work is helping residents address some of the most immediate and costly effects of the storm while volunteers also spread Christ's love.

For more than a year, Trinity Baptist Church in Kerrville has been a place of refuge, recovery and service for families affected by flooding — and a home base for Texans on Mission volunteers working to rebuild the community. So when flooding damaged the church’s children’s wing in July, TXM had an opportunity to give back to a church that had given so much.

Students from Baylor University’s BearAid disaster relief program took to rooftops last week, replacing damaged tin and rebuilding homes for people recovering from Hurricane Melissa.

When Texans and Ugandans on Mission first set foot in the Omoro District in July 2021, their goal was simple: drill new wells and fix broken ones so that families could finally stop drinking dirty water. Now, after five years of dedication to well-drilling and spreading the Gospel, the ministry was honored with a certificate of recognition at a recent Omoro District council session. 

Five children in Brownsville went to sleep in sturdy, framed beds last weekend. The hands that so carefully built, delivered and assembled these bed frames were those of seven Texans on Mission volunteers who traveled hundreds of miles to bring help, hope and healing to low-income families in and around Brownsville.