The Billy Graham Rapid Response Team is responding in East Texas after a series of tornadoes touched down over the weekend.
At least four people were killed and scores more injured when four tornadoes ripped through Van Zandt County on Saturday night. The county of 52,000 people is about an hour’s drive east of Dallas, and officials fear the death toll could rise as clean-up efforts get underway.
“Pray for storm victims across the South this weekend—TX, MO, AR & more—deadly tornadoes & flooding,” Franklin Graham posted on his Twitter account Sunday.
Crisis-trained chaplains with the Rapid Response Team were in the area Monday, working alongside sister ministry Samaritan’s Purse to assess how to best serve this hurting community.
Earlier this year, chaplains deployed in the wake of three southeastern tornadoes. They offered emotional and spiritual care to people in Albany, Georgia; and Forest City, Mississippi, in January; and also ministered in New Orleans after devastating storms there in February.
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 the communities impacted by these deadly tornadoes in your prayers. Please also lift up the first responders who keep working to serve others even as the tornado likely impacted them personally as well.
