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Texas Baptists’ Bounce Student Disaster Recovery to transition to Texans on Mission
Aug. 12, 2026
Texas Baptists’ BOUNCE Student Disaster Recovery will now be under a new home with Texans on Mission partners.
Three-time BOUNCE participant says “yes” to full-time ministry
May 8, 2025
Three-time BOUNCE participant, Morgan Breeden, says “yes” to full-time ministry; receives inward and outward confirmations.
BOUNCE students rise to occasion, adapt to share God’s love in storm’s aftermath
July 17, 2024
A week ago, the BOUNCE week five summer mission team was ready to serve Mora County, New Mexico, assisting with recovery efforts resulting from the 2022 Hermit's Peak/Calf Canyon Fire and post-fire floods. But, recent water contamination and flooding steered them to be a different community’s “answered prayer.”
BOUNCE spring break students are ‘missional for life’
April 9, 2024
Eleven construction projects were completed by 199 participants from 10 churches this past spring break through BOUNCE student disaster recovery, a ministry of Texas Baptists.
BOUNCE student missionary offerings go to support Missionary Adoption Program (MAP) missionaries for three years
Nov. 27, 2023
Offerings generously given by BOUNCE student missionaries have gone to adopt three Missionary Adoption Program (MAP) missionaries in Uganda and Spain for three years.
Students serve church plants through BOUNCE
Aug. 10, 2023
Middle and high school students give a week of their summer vacation learning about and serving church plants through BOUNCE Student Church Planting.
BOUNCE student missionaries rehabilitate homes, learn the value of missions over spring break
March 20, 2023
"We want them to look at people and have a Christ-like heart for others."
Students share Christ and show love through BOUNCE summer missions in Lake Charles
June 16, 2022
I’m grateful because God still has servants that are willing to be used.
BOUNCE continues disaster relief work in heavily impacted Jefferson County
May 26, 2022
See the impact of students coming together through BOUNCE to serve communities in Jefferson County that have been impacted by hurricanes.
BOUNCE teams bring relief to families impacted by hurricanes in Puerto Rico
July 15, 2021
"...we have all these folks here in this community and we get to come alongside them and meet their needs. And that’s what Jesus would do."
BOUNCE Spring Break gives students missional opportunities in southeast Texas
March 22, 2021
“Opportunities like this help us shift our focus off of ‘me’ and focus on things that really matter,”
BOUNCE encourages student ministries to find the mission field in their own backyard
July 1, 2020
“You don’t want to be sitting at home doing nothing when there are people out there who need help.”
Over 150 students and leaders spend Spring Break restoring communities in Waco
March 24, 2020
During the second week of March, 168 middle school and high school students and group leaders from eight churches across Texas served in Waco, TX, through BOUNCE Student Disaster Recovery.
BOUNCE students renovate homes in Dallas community
June 22, 2017
Teenagers travelled to Dallas for the summer, not to shop or catch a baseball game, but to work on remodeling houses. The week of June 12-17 saw three youth groups come to the Metroplex as a part of BOUNCE Student Disaster Recovery, a Texas Baptists Missions program.
Youth group travels to minister’s hometown to rebuild flood-damaged homes
March 31, 2016
When Bobby Catt, minister of students at First Baptist Church in San Angelo, discovered a student mission trip opportunity in Wimberley, he knew he had to sign up his youth group right away.
Youth help rehabilitate homes in South Dallas through BOUNCE
June 16, 2015
Armed with hammers, power tools, paint and enthusiasm, 100 junior high and high school students flooded into South Dallas June 8-13 to help repair homes through Urban BOUNCE.
BOUNCE students bring hope of restoration to South Austin
March 17, 2015
Chris Rubs was cleaning his garage on the night of October 31, 2013, unaware that outside his door, torrential rains had caused the neighborhood creek to overflow.
Student volunteers help West Bounce to recovery
June 23, 2014
Ninety-degree weather, manual labor and full workdays all completed with an attitude of bringing restoration in the name of Jesus Christ -- that is what Texas Baptists' Bounce is all about.