Chaplains with the Billy Graham Rapid Response Team (BG-RRT) have deployed to Western North Carolina (above), Florida, Georgia, and Tennessee after Hurricane Helene barreled through last weekend. The storm left more than 200 dead, and the extent of its damage to homes, businesses, and other buildings is still unknown.
Helene made landfall in Florida as a Category 4 hurricane, killing 13 people in the Sunshine State according to news reports. Eleven of those were in the Tampa area (above).
Chaplains are trained in crisis response and share with those they minister to how to have peace on the inside—no matter what’s going on around us.
“Sometimes when a storm like this comes, people think, ‘Well, maybe God is mad at us, maybe this is His judgment?’ No. God loves us,” Franklin Graham said. “God will take us through those storms if we put our faith and trust in His Son, Jesus Christ.”
A BG-RRT chaplain prays with this man and woman in Valdosta, Ga., where many homes and several downtown buildings were destroyed.
Chaplains speak with a man outside the team’s Mobile Ministry Center (MMC) in Asheville, N.C. The MMC is a gathering place for residents to share their burdens and receive prayer.
Franklin Graham’s daughter, Cissie Graham Lynch (right), offers encouragement to a Boone, N.C., resident who survived Helene.
In Tampa, at least 11 people died, more than 1,000 people were rescued, and tens of thousands of homes were flooded.
“The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; he knows those who take refuge in him.” —Nahum 1:7, ESV
Will you ask God to give strength to each person who went through Helene and to comfort those who are grieving loved ones?
