Texans on Mission volunteers served two-thirds of 2024

Texans on Mission volunteers spent about two-thirds of last year—235 days—in the field, ministering to survivors of a variety of disasters.

Volunteers deployed 18 times to 25 sites. At one point in 2024, teams worked 131 consecutive days with eight overlapping deployments, offering help, hope and healing to people in need.

“The many disasters last year stretched us,” said David Wells, Texans on Mission disaster relief director. “But our volunteers didn’t bat an eye. They would work hard, think they were about to get some rest and then have to go right back out again.

“That’s commitment. It’s commitment to our Lord and to serving people who are experiencing terrible needs. It is amazing to watch these men and women at work.”

Texans on Mission volunteers contributed more than 15,000 volunteer days—about 128,000 volunteer hours.

They presented the gospel about 350 times, resulting in 63 recorded professions of faith. Volunteers distributed 1,125 Bibles and more than 100 evangelistic tracts, and they made more than 4,800 personal contacts.

“We’ve had great years of service in the past,” said Mickey Lenamon, Texans on Mission chief executive officer. “But last year stands out for the cumulative impact accomplished in helping people and leading them to Christ.”

Volunteer teams prepared more than 200,000 meals and distributed 54,000 bottles of water.

‘We made ourselves available to God’

Heavy equipment operators logged more than 4,850 hours, and chainsaw crews completed 1,157 jobs.

Texans on Mission volunteers completed more than 100 tear-out jobs—removing soaked sheetrock and damaged flooring—after floods, as well as 120 mold remediation jobs. They sifted through the ashes of homes consumed by fire more than three dozen times, helping homeowners reclaim lost keepsakes.

They performed more than 50 structural demolitions and cleared 87 sites after disasters, in addition to covering more than 50 buildings with temporary roofing.

Texans on Mission teams washed about 3,600 loads of laundry for volunteers and about 2,000 loads for the public. They provided access to showers to more than 6,400 volunteers and 5,600 others at disaster sites.

“Some people like to talk about the good old days,” Lenamon said. “But these are the good old days for us.

“We have made ourselves available to God and for service through his churches, and that willingness to serve means God keeps raising us up to help others.”

With additional reporting by Ferrell Foster of Texans on Mission.