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When volunteer Matt Enriquez called his 89-year old grandfather, Dr. Ramiro Peña, to tell him he was deploying to Kerrville with the Texans on Mission flood response there, he ended the call with a surprise proposition: “Why don’t you deploy with me?” Even more surprising? Peña, a retired Temple surgeon, said yes.

John Vlasek stands in the middle of his home, stripped bare of furnishings, walls, ceilings and flooring. Even his rock fireplace is gone. It’s testimony to the height and depth of the floodwaters that destroyed the house July 4. The waterline of debris can still be seen just below the ceiling. Surrounding him, Texans on Mission volunteers continue to scrape floors and remove nails from studs.

Behind the walls of one home, on the wood of every doorframe, are Bible verses.

The day after the July 4 Hill Country flood, one of Community Life Church’s founding pastors reached out to Texans on Mission about what the organization was doing and how the congregation could help. Over the next few days, members added to their normal giving and raised $30,000 for TXM’s disaster relief effort centered in Kerrville.

What looked like an ordinary laundry delivery was actually an extraordinary act of kindness: the clothes were all items recovered from flood debris from Camp LaJunta. The clothing is destined to be donated back into flood relief efforts.

The Wheat brothers are well-known as ministers in the Texas Hill Country. Robert is director of missions for Hill Country Baptist Association, while his brother, John, pastors Trinity Baptist Church in Kerrville. When a tragic July 4 flash flood tore through the area, killing more than 100 people and displacing hundreds more, they found themselves at the center of ministering to others.

We are in the first phase of responding to severe flooding in Kerrville. Texans on Mission assessors are on the ground evaluating the need to better understand how volunteers can best help.

Seven Texans on Mission chaplains are ministering to people dealing with the aftermath of the deadly Hill Country flash flood on July 4, and TXM assessors are gathering specific information from homeowners who need help.

Texans on Mission chaplains are in Kerrville ministering to families in the aftermath of the tragic Guadalupe River flooding, and TXM Disaster Relief units will deploy beginning Monday.

Leaders from First Bapitst Church in Allen stopped by Texans on Mission headquarters last week with a gift that will bless this ministry immensely.

D.J. Peña, 17, grew up going to Royal Ambassador camps in the summer and says he always looked forward to spending time with the RA state staffers. They were “some people that I used to look up to, and I always wanted to be like them.”

Seventy students and seven of their teachers from By the Barnyard Gate preschool joined us at the Texans on Mission headquarters, where they made gold-to-gold Gospel bracelets, messages of hope and 938 first step kits