Disaster Relief

Deliver help, hope and healing in the name of Christ to those suffering after a disaster.

Texans on Mission has responded to every natural disaster in Texas since 1967 and many beyond it, including the Southeast Asia tsunami, Hurricane Katrina and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Through a diverse array of ministries, Texans on Mission has provided the calm after the storm for millions.

Go on Mission

You can deliver help, hope and healing after a disaster by becoming a member of a Texans on Mission Disaster Relief team. Through Texans on Mission Disaster Relief teams, you can:

Provide practical help during tragedies by serving hot, nutritious meals and providing access to shower and laundry services.
Be part of a chainsaw team that moves debris and fallen and damaged trees.
Clean out and repair homes damaged by floods and fire.
Pray with and encourage survivors, offering hope for better days after the storm.

Volunteer Now

Be the calm in the storm

As a disaster relief volunteer, you can:

Assess damage
Distribute boxes and packing supplies
Chainsaw fallen trees
Install temporary roofs
Manage large-scale relief efforts
Minister as a chaplain
Mud out damaged homes
Offer free shower and laundry services
Provide child care
Serve warm, nutritious meals

Share your faith and meet human need through international relief with Texans on Mission

Texans on Mission is uniquely experienced and equipped to respond to physical and spiritual needs around the world because of our decades of work closer to home.

We stepped up when:

An earthquake rocked Turkey and Syria.
War came to Uikraine.
A train derailed in India.
War came to Israel.

Texans on Mission experience and expertise providing disaster relief in the United States translates well into helping others in may countries. When we respond to international need, we carry out Jesus' calling to reach the ends of the earth in His name.

Explore your calling to international relief

Read more about Texans on Mission Disaster Relief teams

VIDEO: Disaster relief volunteer shares impressions from first callout away from home

October 15, 2024

Rick Cantu of First Baptist Church in Red Oak is a relatively new volunteer with Texans of Mission Disaster Relief. He was part of the response to Hurricane Helene's devastation in northeast Tennssee.

We're feeding in Florida

October 14, 2024

Our Florida feeding unit is up and running. Yesterday, Texans on Mission volunteers began cooking meals in Port Charlotte, Florida, for those impacted by Hurricane Milton.

Meals keep coming for Tennessee victims

October 10, 2024

Hurricane Helene relief calls for early mornings and preparation for the next load of meals — 3,600 of them to be exact. Texans on Mission volunteers are preparing these hot meals daily to help feed survivors in Tennessee.

Texans on Mission gears up for Milton effort while still responding to Helene

October 9, 2024

Texans on Mission sent key disaster relief equipment to Florida this week in advance of Hurricane Milton’s landfall. The Dallas-based ministry is now seeking more volunteers to respond to what has become a two-hurricane disaster. TXM sent a mobile mass feeding kitchen, large generator, shower/laundry unit and flood recovery unit to Florida Wednesday, while many Texas volunteers are still in North Carolina and Tennessee responding to Hurricane Helena devastation.

VIDEO: You are serving as the hands and feet of Christ after Hurricane Helene

October 9, 2024

In North Carolina and Tennessee, your disaster relief teams continue ramping up ministry as the reality of the situation sets in across the... read more

Electrical power out in Tennessee, but TXM volunteers bring own power — electrical & spiritual

October 8, 2024

As power crews work to restore power in flood-ravaged northeast Tennessee, Texans on Mission volunteers are ministering and clearing out homes in Tennessee flooded by Hurricane Helene. TXM volunteers bring their own generators to run power tools when electrical service is unavailable.