Crisis-trained Chaplains Ministering in Missouri After Devastating Flooding

By   •   May 7, 2017

Deadly and historic flooding impacted Missouri earlier this month. As homeowners figure out next steps, the Billy Graham Rapid Response Team will serve alongside Samaritan's Purse to offer emotional and spiritual care in Ripley County.

Crisis-trained chaplains with the Billy Graham Rapid Response Team have deployed to Missouri to provide emotional and spiritual care in the wake of devastating flooding.

The chaplains are working alongside sister ministry Samaritan’s Purse in Ripley County. Recent torrential storms in the area prompted the Meramec River to rise rapidly and cause historic flooding in the area.

While this is the first flood deployment for the Rapid Response Team in 2017, it is the fifth time this year the chaplains have responded in the wake of natural disaster. Earlier this year, the team deployed to minister after tornadoes sliced through Albany, Georgia; Forrest City, Mississippi; and New Orleans, Louisiana. Chaplains currently are ministering in tornado-ravaged Durant, Mississippi.

The Billy Graham Rapid Response Team is an international ministry of crisis-trained chaplains ready to deploy at a moment’s notice to natural and man-made disasters. Since its inception in the wake of 9/11, hundreds of chaplains have had the honor of praying with hundreds of thousands of people worldwide, all in the name of Jesus.

Please keep all affected by the flooding in your prayers, particularly the first responders and the volunteers who are responding.