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When a high wind event hit North Texas in early September, Southern Baptists of Texas Disaster Relief teams quickly responded to the Leonard area with feeding, chaplaincy, assessment, logistics, and chainsaw crews.
To date, SBTC DR volunteers have contributed more than 550 hours of work helping residents deal with downed trees, talking and praying with survivors, and sharing Jesus through word and deed. Nearly 40 spiritual contacts have been made. First Baptist Church in Leonard continues to host the teams.
“We are always glad to serve the residents of an affected area, and we are grateful for the quick response of our volunteers,” SBTC DR Director Scottie Stice said. “They were on the ground working the morning after the wind event.”
Meanwhile in the Texas Hill Country, an SBTC DR laundry crew and unit remain deployed at Tapatio Springs in Boerne. With community needs met, volunteers are providing laundry services in support of the Texas Task Force 1 search and rescue teams still combing the area for two individuals yet unaccounted for from the July floods.
Volunteers manning the Tapatio Springs laundry unit have contributed 900 volunteer hours and done 487 loads of laundry since July 4. They and their fellow SBDR workers serving in the Hill Country in the aftermath of the destructive flooding have made 272 spiritual care contacts and seen 20 profess faith in Christ.
“We are glad to be able to assist Texas Task Force 1. They face difficult challenges and search conditions, and the outcome of their searching may well be tragic,” Stice said. “That’s a tough one.”
