Southern Baptist Disaster Relief honored Texans on Mission volunteer Wendell Romans of Farmersville last week with its Joel Phillips Award.
"This is like the most valuable player award in sports," said David Wells, TXM Disaster Relief director. "The SBDR Steering Committee receives recommendations from the state directors and then selects the recipient of the award."
Romans is involved in multiple leadership roles with TXM Disaster Relief. He is state leader of TXM's chainsaw work, serves on the Incident Management Team for varied disaster efforts and trains new volunteers in multiple categories.
"Wendell responded to multiple callouts this past year," Wells said "Many of them were in his discipline of chainsaw and several were flood recovery where he served as White Cap for the response.
"Wendell served over 160 days in service this past year. He is willing to go where the need is and discover where God is at work and join Him in that work. This requires deep dedication to TXM and to our Lord," Wells said.
Already this year, Romans has volunteered in California after the devasting wildfires there.
TXM hosted SBDR for its annual meeting last week in San Antonio. Both Wells and Mickey Lenamon, TXM chief exedutive officer, addressed the group.
Mickey Lenamon, Texans on Mission chief executive officer, addresses leadership of Southern Baptist Disaster Relief during their San Antonio meeting.