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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.

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.

People are reeling in the aftermath of the deadliest hurricane in U.S. history. Hurricane Helene washed away entire cities. What’s left in many places has been thrown back in history before electricity, tapwater and the Internet with no clear signs of when either will return.

Texans on Mission deployed mass feeding, chainsaw and flood recovery teams — among others — to meet needs after the deadliest hurricane in U.S. history.

“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?”

“Stop,” urged Chaplain Leslie Burch of the Texans on Mission Deep East Texas flood recovery team. “Can everybody stop and pray with me?” She asked her fellow team members to halt their work as they tore out flooring in the home of Troy and Angel in Morgan City, La. The couple’s home had been flooded during heavy rains that hit the Mississippi Delta town the week before as Hurricane Francine landed in southern Louisiana.

Our food truck was back in action this weekend at the Buckner Shoes for Orphan Souls 25th anniversary celebration.

One sunny day after returning home from a relaxing vacation, Larry Quinn begrudgingly headed out to his yard to tackle the knee-high grass that was quickly morphing into a suburban jungle. He started the engine on the lawn mower, made one-and-a-half passes, then “ker-plunk!” The equipment gave out. Larry’s frustration quickly shifted to an epiphany.

Texans on Mission Camp Builders are renovating the first bunkhouse of many at Highland Lakes Camp & Conference Center, a faith-focused camp in Spicewood, west of Austin.

Texans on Mission deployed an initial set of generator, electrical and fuel units to Kenner, Louisiana, near New Orleans, and is readying flood recovery teams to serve as soon as needs are further assessed.

Flood waters have inundated southeast Bangladesh in recent days. Texans on Mission has a partnership with Baptists in the region and rushed funds to the field. This week, Baptists from the flooded villages sent photos of the difference our TXM donors are making.

Royal Ambassadors had a busy weekend after coming together for the Men’s Retreat at RA Camp Menard and Retiro de Varones at Riverbend Retreat Center.