STATE OFFICE

Dick Talley
State Disaster Relief Director

Rae Jones
Administrative Assistant

 

TBM Open House

 

 

October 8, 2011

From 10:00 am - 2:00 pm

at the

Robert E. Dixon Mission Equipping Center

 

Free lunch served

 

More details later.

TBM appreciates your prayers and support of our Disaster Relief ministry.  Without your financial support we would not be able to help so many hurting people in their hour of need.
    You may mail a gift to TBM Disaster Relief at 5351 Catron, Dallas, TX 75227 with attention to Janice Cleary.
    If you have any questions about a financial gift please call Mickey Lenamon at 214-828-5177.

 Added by popular demand, this new uniform item has a "floppy" wrap-around brim to provide better protection from the sun.

One size fits all.

Please specify "Floppy" Yellow Hat on the Uniform Order Form.

Cost - $15.00 each.

CLICK HERE for a copy of the order form.

Cookie Crumbs 

 Plan to attend one or more of these Training Sessions  

There is a video on the North American Mission Board web site that is well worth the time to view.  It really tells why we do disaster relief and it features a little of the team led by Billy Gilmore and the Paramount Unit.
 
"Touched By An Angell"

A MESSAGE FROM DICK TALLEY

Progress On Many Fronts
 
The heat wave we have been enduring is very distracting. The nice thing is that we have been asked to send teams and leadership off to cooler North Dakota to work. The teams that have been there have had good experiences. Gerry Jones and Jim Pinkston are serving in the command center. We will be sending another Mud-Out team the latter part of the month.

Two of the teams have gone through orientation in our new facilities. This is working out very well. It has provided us insights on how we need to place furniture and lighting, where phones need to be, and how we can use the LED screens for presentations. Having people in the rooms helps us see things we could not visualize when the space was empty. I believe we are going to find the John La Noue center helps us in so many ways.

These hot days with rolling power outages have given us some challenges, Jim Pinkston and the other electricians have brought the new generator on line...another key piece to our operation.

If you have seen the article on our website about Haiti, you saw that things do not always go as expected. Our plan was to do foundation work with a piece of local equipment, but it did not go as anticipated. God's plan was much better. The lack of useful  equipment brought the church, the school, and the community together. It made our project their project. Each of the team members had a great experience. I pray that each team member that goes to Haiti can come away and say "they saw God at work." The community of petit Goave can say the same. I have been blessed to hear the reports of our teams.

The Joy Of Volunteering  

Two nights in a row I have heard the cries of an infant coming from the neighborhood around us. The wailing reminded me of the painful cries my own children expressed while in the throes of colic. I despaired when the cries did not subside for hours.

Last night, Faucher, the man who owns the compound where we are staying, asked permission to give water, filtered by the system we installed here, to the community we live in.

He told me that there are several women here that have young babies and that he wants to help them. He had been telling me how wonderful the water tasted and what a relief it was to him in serving the many teams he hosts.

I mentioned to him the cries that I had heard the previous nights. He said that it was because there was no water in the home that was causing the babies distress. He was actually asking permission from me to help that baby and its mother! It squeezed my heart to speechlessness.

Last night there were no babies crying. Thank you Father for extending your provision to the people around us.