2005: A "Disastrous" Year for Texas Baptist Men
Category: Society & Culture...
Posted Friday, August 18, 2006 at 09:27 AM [GMT-6]

Texas Baptist Men is an organization within the umbrella of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, working in a wide variety of worldwide ministries such as church building, spiritual training and disaster relief. TBM was a key part of the Southern Baptist Convention's Hurricane Katrina relief efforts in partnership with the Red Cross.

In the most recent issue of its newsletter, the extent of TBM's involvement in disaster relief was clearly spelled out, and the numbers are a bit staggering. As a part of the relief efforts following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, 5,114 TBM volunteers cooked and served 1,834,068 free meals to storm victims and relief crews. They also washed more than 1,500 loads of clothes.

When you include disaster relief trips in Mexico, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and India, TBM served more than 2 million free meals. Its motto sums up its commitment to service pretty well: "Love More Than Words...Anyway, Anywhere, Anytime."

Here's the kicker -- the organization has no budget for disaster relief, and receives no government funding. Volunteers pay their own way, and organizational costs are covered -- hopefully -- by donations from generous individuals.

If you'd like to make a contribution to the work done by TBM, you can do so online via JustGive.org, or via check or phone using the information on this page.

Oh, and despite its name, the organization includes women. You don't think guys could get 2 million meals served on time by themselves, do you? ;-)

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You don't think guys could get 2 million meals served on time by themselves, do you?

Or wash 1,500 loads of laundry. I was wonderin' how they did that. Glad you clarified. ;-)

Posted by: Gwynne at August 18, 2006 11:40 AM

Now, see...I intentionally avoiding linking the laundry to the women, thinking I'd be accused of some kind of séxist stereotyping. You can get away with it, though. ;-)

Posted by: Eric at August 18, 2006 11:45 AM

It's mostly a control issue. My husband can and does do laundry, but he's limited to washing only his painting clothes. I mean, how much damage can he do to those? ;-)

On the other hand, I'm sure there are plenty of men out there perfectly capable of doing the laundry. Ahem. Yes. I'm sure. ;-)

Posted by: Gwynne at August 18, 2006 12:01 PM

Well, your comment sounds like a troll, but I fall for them all the time, so here goes: I do about 90% of the laundry (washing, drying, and folding) in our household, avoiding only a small population of my wife's clothes -- mostly assorted tops -- for which I've never been able to decipher her preferred process for handling. What I don't do is iron. I think everyone agrees that's for the best.

Posted by: Eric at August 18, 2006 12:21 PM

I had a friend in high school whose father was solely in charge of their laundry. So there are men out there who manage (and manage well). I'm too much of a control freak to let Tim (well, let is a stretch - the other side of that coin is that we'd be wearing our painting clothes before he might think it was time to run a load. Possibly. Or we could just go shopping.)

Posted by: beth at August 18, 2006 12:34 PM

That's even better...doing 90% and knowing which 10% does not get laundered! If my husband would do that, I might "allow" him to do the laundry also. ;-)

Posted by: Gwynne at August 18, 2006 05:17 PM
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