One year sometimes stands out among all the years that preceded it. Texans on Missions had such a year in 2024.

Hurricane Helene recovery continues, and Texans on Mission volunteers are doing what they can to help in Spruce Pine, North Carolina. Working with North Carolina Baptists On Mission, TXM and 121 Community Church in Grapevine are serving families by rebuilding homes and providing assistance where it's needed most.

Karen Rocha, 27, brings home a glimpse of the Texans on Mission mission trip work in Puerto Rico Oct. 19-26. The group is repairing two homes destroyed by Hurricane Maria in 2017, as well as conducting a Vacation Bible School with Coram Deo Church there. We’ve asked her to send in daily stories and videos, journaling her trip experience.

“All I did was scream and pray,” she recalls. “I had three cats and was screaming for the cats, and there was a dog out in the storage room. So all I could think of was the animals, you know?”

Thursday, five Texans on Mission volunteers began the process of rebuilding the Dyess Grove Baptist Church's structure after a June tornado ripped off one wall and half of the roof. The volunteers came from Crestview Baptist Church in Georgetown and Bell Baptist Association.

Brooke Brandon deals with a number of chronic illnesses that limit her mobility and require her to use a walker. A year ago this month she crouched in her hallway as a tornado ripped off the roof of much of her home in Matador, northeast of Lubbock. Last week, a Texans on Mission team from Lawn Baptist Church helped Brandon rebuild.