“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.

History can hang in the balance at unsuspecting times. A congregation of four or five gathered 20 years ago in Vincent, Texas, to vote on whether or not to disband as a church. One woman cited Scripture: “Where two or more are gathered, God is with us.”

Revive San Marcos is a spring break missions, discipleship, ministry and service experience.

Twenty teenage Texans on Mission volunteers and leaders are spending their spring break as part of Revive San Marcos – 17 from First Baptist Church in Gilmer. Add in disaster relief volunteers who are providing food for the teens and others in the community, and 36 total are involved.