ACTION 8 UPDATE: Deatsville business raises hundreds of thousands of dollars for Texas flood victims through T-shirt sales
ACTION 8 UPDATE: A faith-based clothing business in Deatsville has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars to help flood victims in Texas.
As we showed you earlier this month, it all started when Taylor Moore, the owner and creator of Tees by Taylor, saw communities devastated by the recent flooding in Texas. Moore decided to make and sell t-shirts that say “Texas Strong” to help those affected by the devastating floods.
She, along with the help of social media content creators Shelby and Dylan Reese and local volunteers, raised $330,000. Shirts were sold to people all over the world.
Moore says that none of this would have been possible without God and the wonderful people who have helped.
“We’ve never actually made this many t-shirts, at least at one time,” she said. “To do it in two weeks has been incredible. Like, the amount of volunteers that we’ve had to make this happen, definitely God sent them to us. Everybody that has come and been a part. We just know that we are being the hands and feet of Jesus this week and it’s really touched everyone’s heart that has been here.”
“If God wanted it to happen, it would’ve happened anyway,” Dylan Reese said. “Whether is was us or somebody else, it’s just that we feel so blessed that He chose us to be able to do it.”
“We’re super thankful for the platform that we have and being able to use it for something like this. I think it’s just made us feel more grateful than anything that we get to do what we do in order to help others,” Shelby Reese said.
The money is going to the humanitarian aid organization Samaritan’s Purse. The floods over the July 4 weekend killed more than 100 people in Texas. A total of 27 young girls and counselors at an all-girls Christian summer camp called Camp Mystic died when waters rose quickly.
