Israel Response News
TBM responds to Israel situation
Violence has erupted in Israel, and TBM: Texans on Mission is responding to the great humanitarian need in multiple ways. Here are reports on the TBM response:
Third TBM team in Israel; 100,000 total meals served (Nov. 29)
A third team of TBM volunteers is now serving meals in Israel and doing so at remote locations, according to Gary Finley, TBM’s volunteer coordinator in Israel.
“We’re cooking remotely,” Finley said, after the team finished preparing and serving 1,300 meals near the Egyptian border Nov. 29. TBM volunteers set up the mobile kitchen in a tent outpost and reached the site by van and truck via a two-hour drive.
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Weight of war presses on people in Israel as TBM volunteers serve (Nov. 29)
A rocket hit Leora’s high-rise apartment building in Israel, but she found protection in her “safe room.”
Later, one of Leora’s three adult children came to her apartment in blood-drenched clothes before leaving again. He soon returned a second time in bloody clothes, needing to change again.
The middle-aged Israeli woman shared her story with Doug Hall, who served on the second TBM feeding team to work in Israel since the war began.
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Mickey's Israel Prayer Update (Nov. 16)
Through our local partners, TBM continues to provide thousands of meals a day as war continues Israel and Gaza. People are dying and suffering across the region, and you are bringing:
- Help by providing food for thousands who have been cut off from regular nutrition.
- Hope by reminding the people we serve that even in a war-ravaged situation there are Christians in the far-off United States who offer spiritual and material support.
- Healing through a relationship with Christ.
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Mickey's Israel Prayer Update & Video (Nov. 8)
In the past few weeks, I've asked you to pray for Israel and the TBM volunteers who were serving in the midst of the war. You've been incredibly faithful, and your prayers have made an incredible difference as we serve during this fluid situation.
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First TBM volunteers return from Israel (Nov. 3)
The first two teams of TBM volunteers in Israel are now returning home after providing more than 30,000 meals since the Israel-Hamas war began. However, it isn’t the war that dominates their conversation. They talk about the faith that motivated them and the people they encountered.
“Being a witness was the main focus for us going there,” said Genia Macon of First Baptist Church in Lewisville. “Christians coming from halfway around the world is a huge witness for Jesus Christ. … It’s not our words; it's our actions. We feel like we’re the hands and feet of Jesus Christ.”
Second TBM team heads to Israel (Oct. 19)
TBM: Texans on Mission's second team left for Israel Wednesday, Oct. 18, while about half of the first team is returning home.
"The first team is doing extremely well," said John Hall, TBM's chief mission officer. "They're safe and have found a groove. In fact, they were setting up for about 2,000 meals today in Israel," Hall said Thursday, Oct. 19.
TBM helps medical personnel serve in Israel (Oct. 17)
TBM: Texans on Mission has provided $150,000 to transport medical professionals from the United States to help treat people affected by the ongoing war in Israel.
“Doctors, nurses and paramedics are on their way to help as volunteers in Israel,” said John-Travis Smith, TBM associate executive director who coordinates TBM ministry in Israel. “So many people are suffering as a result of the violence in Israel,” Smith said.
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Baptist Standard: TBM preparing meals for displaced people in Israel (Oct. 11)
Specially trained TBM disaster relief volunteers are at a secure site in Israel, preparing about 2,000 meals a day for civilians displaced by bombing, the Baptist Standard reported Oct. 11.
"The TBM crew — all of whom trained in Israel to learn how to cook culturally appropriate meals for religiously observant citizens of the region — arrived in two waves," the story said.
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TBM deploys specialized feeding team to meet needs in the midst of war in Israel (Oct. 9)
Trained TBM volunteers headed to Israel Sunday after the nation erupted into warfare Saturday. The volunteers will provide meals to Israelis and Palestians.
Hamas surprised Israel with a barrage of at least 2,200 rockets Oct. 7 as well as ground troops invading southern Israel. Israel responded by shooting missiles into the Gaza, where Hamas is based.