Texas Baptist Men Provide Hurricane Relief

The South Texas Unit of the “Texas Baptist Men” traveled to Mexico Sunday. The group of 20 area volunteers will set up a relief center in Tamaulipas, Mexico where they expect to serve up to 20,000 meals to victims of Hurricane Emily. The group will be joined by the East Texas Unit and will serve about a week before being relieved by other volunteers.

Texas Baptist Men receive special training in relief services. The South Texas unit is comprised of men from Alice, Rockport, Skidmore, George West, and beyond. The organization was founded in 1967 and performed its first disaster relief services in the aftermath of Hurricane Beulah in 1968. Since then, the group has offered comfort to victims of tornados, earthquakes, disease, and most recently served victims of the Asian tsunami.

For more information about the important work performed by the Texas Baptist Men, visit their website online at:
www.baptistmen.org

The Texas Baptist Men were the subject of a KRISTV.COM story back in January of 2005: Texas Baptist Men to Help with Tsunami Relief