When disaster strikes, Texans on Mission is ready to respond

Texans on Mission do just what their name says – respond to a disaster or other crises, wherever and whenever they are needed.

Members provided chainsaw and flood recovery crews for Louisiana, mass feeding and flood recovery teams for Tennessee and chainsaw units for North Carolina in the wake of the recent hurricane. Now, they are sending equipment, including an industrial-sized generator and flood recovery tools, to Florida in advance of Hurricane Milton, with disaster relief leadership soon to follow.

“Our volunteers are simply amazing,” Chief Mission Officer John Hall said, according to “The Christian Post.” “They have responded and keep responding. We are still heavily committed in North Carolina and Tennessee but, thanks to our donors, we can at least send needed equipment to Florida right now.”

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Texans on Mission, previously known as Texas Baptist Men, was one of the first Christian disaster relief groups in the country. Since its beginning in the 1960s, it has been joined by other disaster relief organizations and networks that now make large responses like the current one possible.

“Jesus told us to love our neighbor as ourselves and showed us that our neighbor is anyone in need,” Hall said. “That motivates us and the other Christian groups.”

The organization deployed mass feeding, chainsaw and flood recovery teams, among others, to meet needs after Hurricane Helene raged through Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, South Carolina, Virginia and North Carolina. The storm killed at least 230 people and left millions without electricity. Its feeding unit has been tasked with providing more than 2,000 meals a day in Tennessee while flood recovery volunteers clean out water-soaked homes from the floods. In North Carolina, chainsaw teams are cutting and removing fallen limbs and trees in an area hit hard by the storm’s high winds.

An emerging nationwide network of Christians called the On Mission Network is resourcing and coordinating relief efforts in multiple areas.

“The Bible tells us we can do all things through Christ who gives us strength,” Wells said. “We’re seeing that in this response as God’s people respond to his call to minister. Texans on Mission volunteers are serving as the hands and feet of Christ to people in some of their most difficult days. Everyone has a role in God’s kingdom. Many people are being called to go serve right now. Some people are being called to give financially. We are all being called to pray for what’s happening from Florida to North Carolina and everywhere in between.”

–Alan Goforth | Metro Voice