On August 25, 2010, Texas Baptist Men hosted a group from Honduras at the Dixon Building. This group came seeking ways that they might enlist, train and use volunteers in times of disaster in Honduras.

We have been invited to Rio Grande City to work with SBTC operations there to clean the flooded homes. 

Dr. Fred Sorrells is giving hope in Haiti through amputee soccer. There have been many amputees due to the Haiti earthquake.

The LaGrange mud out unit was deployed to Del Rio to assist First Baptist Church in their ministry to their community. The subdivision along Vega Verde Street is no longer under water.

Hurricane Alex made landfall in northeastern Mexico
Location: Municipality of Soto La Marina around 110 miles south of Brownsville, TX
Time: 9 PM CDT
Category: 2
Winds: 105 mph 

Texas Baptist Men Disaster Relief State Feeding Unit is currently staged in the Alamo Regional Command Center (ARCC) in San Antonio.  US Food Service has staged three tractor trailers of food and paper goods with TBM's Disaster Relief team.

The second TBM Clean-out Team returned recently from a call-out in New England. The 12 member team, lead by Russell Schieck as the Blue Cap.

Rickey Null from Terrell, Texas just returned from Nipas, Chile where he led a TBM team in rebuilding a pastors home. The goal is to build 10 homes and churches.

NIPAS, Chile—More than two months after an earthquake rocked Chile, rains have begun and winter soon will arrive, leaving a group of Baptist pastors bracing for the cold in small tents that have become their impromptu homes in the wake of the disaster.

As many of you know, recent flooding on a scale rarely seen in New England forced hundreds of people from their homes. Water filled homes, across New England, suffered wide spread damage.